On Cam: Moment Hezbollah Member's Pager Exploded At Grocery Store In Lebanon

9 people were killed and 2,800 injured in Lebanon after pagers used by Hezbollah members exploded in Lebanon on Tuesday.

Footage of the moment when pagers of the Hezbollah members exploded in crowded areas has surfaced on social media. Nine people, including a child, were killed after handheld pagers used by the members of the armed rebel group in Lebanon exploded on Tuesday. 

In one of the footage, a man wearing a white shirt and a baseball cap could be seen at a grocery store when an explosion suddenly takes place causing commotion. Another man standing beside him runs away as the man in a white shirt falls to the floor. 

Around 2,800 people were injured, including Iran's ambassador to Lebanon, in the simultaneous blasts in Beirut and several other regions across the country. The armed rebel group, backed by Iran, said that the pagers belonged "to “employees of various Hezbollah units and institutions” as it confirmed the death of its eight fighters. 

It also blamed Israel for what is called "this criminal aggression" and vowed that it would get "just retribution". While the Israeli military declined to comment on the incident, Lebanon accused Israel's Mossad spy agency of planting a small amount of explosives inside 5,000 Taiwan-made pagers ordered by Hezbollah. 

According to a Reuters report, a Lebanese security source claimed that the pagers were modified by Israel's spy agency "at the production level" which were brought into Lebanon in the spring. 

"The Mossad injected a board inside of the device that has explosive material that receives a code. It's very hard to detect it through any means. Even with any device or scanner," the source said.

As per the report, 3,000 of the pagers exploded when a coded message was sent to them, simultaneously activating the explosives. Another security source told Reuters that up to three grams of explosives were planted in the new beepers and had gone "undetected" by Hezbollah for months. 

Meanwhile, the Taiwanese company Gold Apollo denied making the AR-924 pagers and said it was manufactured by a company called BAC which has a license to use its brand. 

"The product was not ours. It was only that it had our brand on it," Gold Apollo founder and president, Hsu Ching-kuang told reporters in the northern Taiwanese city of New Taipei at the company's office on Wednesday. 

In a statement, the company said it "authorised "BAC to use our brand trademark for product sales in specific regions, but the design and manufacturing of the products are entirely handled by BAC.