(18 Sep 2024)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
Beirut, Lebanon – 18 September 2024
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1. Mid of controlled explosion
2. Lebanese army officers on site looking
3. Officer standing
4. Mid of hole in which device was placed to detonate
5. Various of hole and explosive device
6. People around hole taking photos and videos
STORYLINE:
An explosive device found in the parking lot of one of Lebanon’s biggest hospitals was detonated by Lebanese army personnel on Wednesday as the small Mediterranean country grapples with attacks targeting electronic devices.
The army placed the device in a hole to safely detonate it after it was found in the parking lot of the American University of Beirut Medical Center.
The controlled explosion took place as Lebanon was rocked by a second wave of exploding devices.
Walkie-talkies and solar equipment exploded in Beirut and multiple parts of Lebanon on Wednesday in an apparent second wave of attacks targeting electronic devices.
At least nine people were killed and more than 300 people wounded in the second wave, the Health Ministry said.
This comes a day after hundreds of pagers used by Hezbollah blew up, state media and Hezbollah officials said.
The new blasts hit a country still roiling with confusion and anger after Tuesday’s pager bombings, which appeared to be a complex Israeli attack targeting Hezbollah members that caused civilian casualties, too.
Tuesday’s bombings killed at least 12 people, including two children, and wounded some 2,800 others.
The attacks, which were widely believed to be carried out by Israel targeting Hezbollah, have hiked fears that the two sides’ simmering conflict could escalate into all-out war.
The second wave also deepens concern over the potentially indiscriminate casualties caused in the attacks, in which hundreds of blasts went off wherever the holder of the pager happened to be — in homes, cars, at grocery stores and in cafes, often with family or bystanders nearby.
AP video shot by Fadi Al Tawil
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