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Hezbollah arms depot explodes in south Lebanon village. Several injured

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BEIRUT – An arms depot of the Iran-backed Shi’ite Muslim group Hezbollah exploded in southern Lebanon on Tuesday, a security source said, injuring several people and sending a new shockwave across a nation grappling with its deepest crisis in three decades.

Blast at Hezbollah arms depot rocks south Lebanon, ‘technical error’ was blamed

The security source said the arms depot blast, which sent a huge column of black smoke into the sky, was caused by a “technical error”.

The explosion rocked the village of Ain Qana in south Lebanon, a region that is a political stronghold of the heavily armed and politically powerful group which has fought wars with neighbouring Israel.

The blast has further rattled a nation grappling with its worst crisis since the 1975-1990 civil war and still reeling from a devastating explosion at Beirut port that ripped through the capital, killing at least 190 people.

Since the Beirut blast on Aug. 4, subsequent fires at the port and elsewhere in the capital have caused panic in Beirut and across the country, whose economy is in meltdown while politicians have yet to agree on how to form a new government.

The previous government resigned after Beirut blast and is acting in a caretaker capacity. Forming the new cabinet has hit a logjam as Hezbollah and its main Shi’ite ally have demanded they name the finance and some other ministers.

Another security source said Hezbollah had set up a security cordon around Tuesday’s blast site, about 50 km (30 miles) south of Beirut. Journalists were prevented from approaching the area.

There was no immediate statement from Hezbollah. The group’s television channel Al Manar said in a news broadcast that the cause of the blast was still not clear.

Security sources said there were several injuries without giving figures.

A witness near the village said they felt the ground shake.

Footage from the area broadcast by Al-Jadeed showed men walking over scorched ground littered with debris. Damage was shown in an adjacent house where the floor was covered in glass and what appeared to be a pool of blood.

At least one fire was still burning in the location, the footage showed.

REUTERS

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    At about 15:00 on Tuesday, September 22, a powerful explosion thundered in the area of ​​the village of Ain Kana in southern Lebanon.

    After the explosion, the plume of smoke rose tens of meters.

    At first it was reported that the explosion took place at a gas station. Later there were reports that the explosion took place at the Hezbollah facility.

    Local journalists report on social networks that the area of ​​the explosion is cordoned off by the army.

    There are two main versions in the Lebanese media: the Hezbollah weapons depot or a house belonging to a high-ranking militant of this terrorist organization exploded. The weapons depot is also being voiced by Lebanese officials, who say the explosion was for “technical reasons.”

    Al-Arabiya reports with reference to the Lebanese media about “many” victims of the explosion. Hezbollah denies these reports.

    At the same time, the Lebanese government news agency, a few hours after the explosion, published a message that the incident occurred against the backdrop of the intensification of Israeli aviation in the airspace of southern Lebanon.

    The Israeli blogger Abu Ali, specializing in the Middle East, writes that on August 7, a Lebanese journalist who served for some time in Hezbollah’s captivity and then fled to Norway, wrote on his blog that there are huge reserves in Ain Cana. explosives from Hezbollah, because the engineers of this organization in the houses of this settlement are working on the production of bombs. Abu Ali reports that in recent hours the journalist has begun to receive an unusually high number of threats.

    Information is being specified

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