Beirut: After the wave of pagers and walkie-talkies explosions in Lebanon’s capital city Beirut, the Civil Aviation authorities of Lebanon have banned pagers and walkie-talkies on all the flights departing from Beirut's Rafic Hariri International Airport.

Multiple explosions have been reported across the south of Lebanon and in the southern suburbs of the capital Beirut, a day after thousands of pagers used by Hezbollah detonated across the country. Lebanon’s state-run National News Agency said pagers and “devices” exploded in Hezbollah strongholds in the east and south of Beirut on Wednesday.

For millions of Lebanese, this week's mass explosion of pagers and walkie-talkies, with its bloody aftermath, is painfully similar to the horrific explosion four years ago of haphazardly stored ammonium nitrates that tore through Beirut's port,