Pagers explode across Lebanon in attack targeting Hezbollah members
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- Scores injured: At least eight people were killed and 2,800 wounded in an attack that targeted pagers held by members of Iran-backed Lebanese militant group Hezbollah across Lebanon on Tuesday, according to the country’s health minister. Iran’s ambassador to Lebanon was one of those injured, according to Iranian state media.
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The majority of those injuries are in the abdomen, hand and face, particularly in the eye area, he said earlier at a news conference in Beirut.