September 18 (EUROPA PRESS) –
Iranian authorities on Wednesday sent a medical team to Lebanon to assist the authorities in caring for the victims of the explosion of thousands of “buscas” in the country, which left nearly ten dead and more than 2,800 injured, following accusations by the Lebanese authorities and the Shiite militia party Hezbollah against Israel for its involvement in these events.
According to information gathered by the Iranian news agency Mehr, the team is made up of twelve doctors and twelve nurses and paramedics from the Iranian Red Crescent Society with the aim of treating those injured in the explosions.
Although the explosions had initially been attributed to a cyber attack, US officials have confirmed to The New York Times that Israeli intelligence had managed to conceal explosive material inside a new batch of some 3,000 pagers imported into Lebanon.
These devices were loaded with explosive material weighing between 30 and 60 grams, along with the battery of each pager and a system that could be activated remotely for detonation upon arrival in Lebanese territory, after which Hezbollah distributed them among its members in Lebanon, Syria and even Iran.
All of the pagers that were on received a message at 3:30 p.m. (local time) that ended up activating the explosives after a notification beep lasting several seconds. Although many of the victims are believed to be members of Hezbollah, among the dead there is a girl and it is unknown how many of them are actually members of the group and in what positions they operate.
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