Hello and welcome this is News Hour from the BBC World Service coming to you live from

London. My name's Paul Henley. In Lebanon first a second wave of explosions of personal devices

has today killed 14 people and wounded hundreds in Hezbollah

strongholds. A source close to Hezbollah said the new explosions involved walkie talkies used by its members

and in the south and east of the country attacks happened too. Yesterday there were

simultaneous explosions of hundreds of paging devices

also used by Hezbollah killing 12 people including two children

and wounding up to 2,800 others. There was no comment from Israel which only hours before the attacks

announced that it was broadening the aims of its war with Hamas in Gaza to include the fight

against the Palestinian group's ally Hezbollah.

Of course what's happened has now stoked fears of an all-out war in the region.

Our correspondent Ugo Bashaga is in Beirut, I asked him how this new wave of explosions unfolded.

So there were reports of explosions here in Beirut also in southern Lebanon and in the Becca Valley in the east of the country and

again we've seen that communication devices being used by Hezbollah were the target

and what happened today was even worse than what happened yesterday at least

in terms of the number of people killed 14 people killed and around 450 wounded and I was in Darhir earlier today the Hezbollah stronghold here in the

southern suburb of Beirut and we heard that huge blast at around five o'clock in the afternoon a funeral was about to start for four of the victims of the attacks that happened yesterday.

So there was some panic, some people running away.

And then there was chaos because people simply didn't know what was happening.

There were a lot of unconfirmed reports on social media of devices exploding,

and people seem to fear that any kind of device could explode.

You know, Hezbollah members stopped our team several times saying,

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