⁍ The arms depot blast sent a huge column of black smoke into the sky.
⁍ The explosion rocked the village of Ain Qana in south Lebanon.
⁍ The blast has further rattled a nation grappling with its worst crisis since the 1975-1990 civil war.
– An arms depot belonging to Hezbollah exploded in southern Lebanon today, a security source tells Reuters, injuring several people. The explosion rocked the village of Ain Qana in south Lebanon, a political stronghold of the heavily armed and politically powerful group, which has fought wars with neighboring 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 the country, whose economy is in meltdown. Another security source said Hezbollah had set up a security cordon around the blast site, about 30 miles south of Beirut. Journalists were prevented from approaching the area.
Source: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-lebanon-crisis-south-fire/arms-depot-of-iran-backed-hezbollah-explodes-in-south-lebanon-source-says-idUSKCN26D1P1