Caught On Cam | Moment When Walkie Talkie Exploded During Funeral Procession In Lebanon

A blast during a funeral procession took out who might have been a Hezbollah operative in Lebanon. The video, shared by Jason Brodsky who is the policy director at the United Against Nuclear Iran (UANI), showed a funeral procession involving huge crowds of men and women and children when suddenly a plume of smoke erupts from a person in front of an ambulance.

News18 could not independently verify the authenticity of the video shared.

The blast, visually similar to a bursting of a cracker, immediately scattered the crowd gathered near the ambulance. One person was captured rolling on the ground in agony while people around him ran to take cover.

It is unclear where the blast may have occurred but a separate report by broadcaster BBC said that a blast occurred at a funeral procession in Dahiyeh, a southern suburb of Beirut, where crowds gathered to bid farewell to four of the people killed in Tuesday’s pager explosion.

A second wave of device explosions killed three people and wounded more than 100 in Hezbollah strongholds of Lebanon on Wednesday, officials said, stoking fears of an all-out war in the region. Local news media outlets have put the number of deaths at nine and twenty as well.

A source close to Hezbollah said walkie-talkies used by its members blew up in its Beirut stronghold, with state media reporting similar blasts in south and east Lebanon.

It came a day after the simultaneous explosion of hundreds of paging devices used by Hezbollah killed 12 people, including two children, and wounded up to 2,800 others across Lebanon, in an unprecedented attack blamed on Israel.

There was no comment from Israel, which only hours before Tuesday’s attacks had announced it was broadening the aims its war with Hamas in the Gaza Strip to include its fight against the Palestinian group’s ally Hezbollah.

Hezbollah said Israel was “fully responsible for this criminal aggression” and reiterated it would avenge the attack, while vowing to continue its fight against Israel in support of Hamas in the Gaza war.