Middle East & Africa | Supply-chain sabotage

A pager-bomb attack causes disarray for Hizbullah

Thousands of devices explode in an apparent Israeli strike

People react near an ambulance as the wounded are brought to a hospital in Beirut. Hundreds of people were wounded when Hezbollah members' paging devices exploded simultaneously across Lebanon.
Photograph: Getty Images
|Dubai

Editor’s note (September 18th): More explosions took place in Lebanon a day after the initial round of blasts, this time affecting walkie-talkies used by Hizbullah.

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