The death toll in Tuesday’s pager explosion attacks in Lebanon has risen to 12, including an eight-year-old girl and 11-year-old boy, Lebanon’s Minister of Public Health said in a press conference on Wednesday. At least 2,750 people have been injured, with most injuries “in the eyes or hands,” Dr. Firass Abiad said. Of the wounded, 750 people were from the south, 150 from the Bekaa, and 1,850 from Beirut and Dahiyeh, he said.

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