Lebanon pager blasts: Key takeaways from mystery explosions

Thousands of pagers and other wireless communication devices that were used by Hezbollah members exploded simultaneously in various locations across Lebanon for about an hour on Tuesday. The blasts led to the deaths of nine people, while nearly 3,000 others were also injured. Some 100 such blasts were also reported in Syria.
Hezbollah has accused Israel of carrying out the attacks and vowed retaliation, but the Jewish nation is yet to respond to the allegations.
The Iran-backed Lebanese militant group, which has engaged in cross-border skirmishes with Israel since the war with Hamas erupted in October 2023, is known to use pagers as a low-tech means of communication in an attempt to evade Israeli location tracking.
India Today TV spoke to defence experts and here are the 11 key takeaways from the mystery explosions.