A view shows a hole where the Lebanese army carried out a controlled explosion of a walkie-talkie device outside the American University of Beirut Medical Center, in Beirut, Lebanon September 18, 2024.
Reuters
Dubai: The death toll from Wednesday's blasts in Lebanon rose to 25, the country's health minister Firass Abiad said on Thursday during a press conference.
Meanwhile, Bulgaria's state security agency, DANS, said in a statement that it is working with the interior ministry to probe the role of a company registered in Bulgaria, without naming it. Bulgarian media reports allege that a Sofia-based company called Norta Global Ltd had facilitated the sale of the pagers, which exploded across Lebanon on Tuesday, killing 11 people and wounding 4,000.