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Hezbollah Pager Explosions Kill Several People in Lebanon (www.reuters.com)

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"At least eight people were killed and 2,750 others including Hezbollah fighters, medics and Iran's envoy to Beirut were wounded on Tuesday when the pagers they use to communicate exploded across Lebanon, security sources and the Lebanese health minister said...

Lebanese internal security forces said a number of wireless communication devices were detonated across Lebanon, especially in Beirut's southern suburbs, a Hezbollah stronghold. The pagers that detonated were the latest model brought in by Hezbollah in recent months, three security sources said."

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[–] 201dberg@lemmygrad.ml 18 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

They weren't hacked. A Li-ion battery doesn't explode like that. It might flash and burn and injure you but those explosions are... explosive in nature. I had read some comments elsewhere saying these pagers were manufactured by some shell company in Taiwan. Idk how true that is but in one way or another, these pagers very likely had actual explosives put in them. It's way easier to rig up a small explosive to go off at the ring of a certain number then to "hack" it to cause the battery to somehow explode in a way those batteries don't actually explode.

[–] CriticalResist8@lemmygrad.ml 18 points 1 day ago

These pagers don't even use lithium, they run on normal AAA batteries. There was tampering along the supply chain.