JAKARTA - Lebanon is now rocked by a handheld radio explosion/walkie talkie a day after the simultaneous explosion of the pager.
The handheld radio was purchased by Hezbollah five months ago, around the same time the pager was purchased, a security source said.
Israeli spy agency Mossad, which has a long history of advanced operations abroad, planted explosives in a pager imported by Hezbollah months before the explosion on Tuesday, a senior Lebanese security source and other sources told Reuters.
Lebanese Ministry of Health said the initial victim of the walkie-talkie explosion was one person killed and more than 100 injured. Earlier state news agency reported three people were killed.
It was reported that one explosion occurred near the funeral carried out by Hezbollah for the victim who died as a result of the explosion of the pager.
ReporterReuters on the southern outskirts of Beirut said he saw Hezbollah members panicked removing an unexploded walkie-talkie battery, and throwing its parts into a metal barrel around them.
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An exploding walkie-talkie image examined by Reuters shows the inner panel labeled "ICOM" and "Japanese-made".
According to its website, ICOM is a radio and telephone communication company based in Japan.
The company said the production of several ICOM handheld radio models had been halted, including the IC-V82, which appears to be very similar to images taken from Lebanon on Wednesday, September 18 and halted in stages in 2014.
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