On the afternoon of the 17th local time, during the ministerial meeting of the caretaker government of Lebanon, pager explosions occurred in Beirut, the capital of Lebanon, and many places in southeast and northeast Lebanon. In the aftermath of the bombing, hospitals in places such as Beirut, the capital of Lebanon, received a large number of injured people.
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Reporter Ci Xiaoning: I am now in a large hospital in Beirut, the capital of Lebanon, and I was in front of the hospital for nearly two hours when at least 10 rescue vehicles drove into the hospital.
Reporter Ci Xiaoning: On the afternoon of September 17, local time, a number of explosions occurred in the southern suburbs of Beirut, the capital of Lebanon, and we did not know what happened because the network in many places in the southern suburbs of Beirut was cut off in the initial stage of the bombings. It was later confirmed that there had been an explosion in the pager carried by multiple people in the southern suburbs. Not only in the southern suburbs of Beirut, but also in the Bekaa region of southern and eastern Lebanon, a large number of pagers carried by people exploded. The Lebanon Allah party issued a statement confirming that a pager carried by many of its members exploded.
Ambulances honked in downtown Beirut in the wake of pager explosions, and a large number of ambulances drove the roads to transport the wounded to hospitals. The Public Health Emergency Operations Centre of the Ministry of Public Health of Lebanon issued an urgent statement asking all people carrying pagers to immediately throw them away and calling on people gathered on roads to make room for ambulances. At the same time, the statement also asked all hospitals in all regions of Lebanon to maintain high vigilance to meet the needs of emergency medical services.
Lebanon Minister of Public Health Abjad said that on the afternoon of the 17th, a large number of wounded were taken to the hospital, and these injured were mainly injured in the explosion of the pager they carried, and the number of people who arrived in the hospital emergency room was very large. In addition, in Sidon, Lebanon, people went to the Lebanon Red Cross to donate blood for those injured in pager explosions across Lebanon.