Thousands of Hezbollah fighters injured in Lebanon when their new pagers all simultaneously explode — causing horrifying wounds to their groins and hands
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Thousands of Hezbollah terrorists were injured in southern Lebanon on Tuesday when their new pagers all simultaneously exploded — causing horrifying burns to their groins and hands as the devices d…
  • dance_ninja@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 days ago

    The explosive material was allegedly placed inside the pagers’ batteries and detonated by an external command that caused the batteries’ temperatures to overheat and trigger the explosion, the sources added.

    Yeah, you’re right. I read that article too quickly. Thought it said they just did something with malware to trigger the battery to explode.

    • TrousersMcPants@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      2 days ago

      Even if they did do that, afaik batteries can’t fail like that, especially little ones in pagers. If anything they’d just burst into flames and people would get a few burns