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Hezbollah member, son of terror group MP, said killed in pager explosion; girl also killed

By Emanuel Fabian
and Reuters 17 September 2024, 6:14 pm 39 Edit

A Hezbollah member, the son of a Hezbollah parliament member, has been killed by an exploding pager, two security sources tell Reuters.

Reports name the MP as Ali Ammar.

Separately, a young girl was killed in northeastern Lebanon’s Baalbek District, according to Lebanese media.

The reports name her as 9-year-old Fatima Jaafar Abdullah, daughter of a Hezbollah member.

According to Lebanese media, the pager had exploded in her parents’ home, in the village of Saraain.

“A 10-year-old girl was martyred in the Bekaa Valley after her father’s pager exploded while he was next to her,” her relatives tell AFP.

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