Chaotic scenes outside Lebanon hospitals after pager explosions

Lebanese medics treated a stream of wounded people at a hospital car park as others rushed to give blood after pagers across Lebanon simultaneously exploded.

The health ministry reported that nine were killed and some 2,750 others wounded.

"In all my life I’ve never seen someone walking on the street... and then explode,” said Musa, a resident of Beirut’s southern suburbs, requesting to be identified only by his first name, AFP reported.

At one hospital in Beirut’s southern suburbs, an AFP correspondent saw people being treated in a car park on thin mattresses, with medical gloves on the ground and ambulance stretchers covered in blood.

At another hospital in the area, the correspondent saw one person wounded in the face, eye and hand, and another on the side of his waist, with a third person being treated in a car.