Lebanese Walkie Talkie Battery Exploded Allegedly Mixed By High-State-Alleed Compound PETN

Hezbollah/PHOTO via Wikimedia Commons/khamenei.ir

JAKARTA The walkie-talkie battery of the Lebanese armed group Hezbollah that exploded was allegedly inserted with a high explosive compound known as PETN.

PETN is an organic compound that is very volatile and belongs to the same chemical family asorigliserin and sensecalulosa.

Reuters quoted Lebanese sources as familiar with the device's components as saying Friday, September 20.

The way explosives are integrated into batteries makes it very difficult to detect, the source said.

As previously reported, 37 people were killed and more than 3,000 people injured when the pager and walkie-talkie used by Hezbollah members exploded in two waves of attacks on Tuesday and Wednesday this week.

Lebanon and Hezbollah, Iran-backed armed groups, said Israel carried out the attack. But Israel has not yet claimed responsibility.

Lebanese soldiers said they blew up suspicious pagers and telecommunications devices in controlled explosions in various areas. They asked residents to report any suspicious devices.

Hezbollah and Israel exchanged fire against each other across the Lebanese-Israeli border for nearly a year, in a conflict sparked by the Gaza war.