CNN
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Dubai’s Emirates airline has banned pagers and walkie-talkies from its planes, following final month’s assaults on such units carried by the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah.
“All Passengers travelling on flights to, from or by way of Dubai are prohibited from transporting pagers and walkie talkies in checked or cabin baggage,” the airline wrote in a press release posted on its web site Friday.
“Such gadgets present in passengers’ hand baggage or checked baggage can be confiscated by Dubai Police,” it added.
It comes weeks after pagers exploded simultaneously throughout Lebanon, adopted by walkie-talkies detonating similarly. Lebanese officers blamed Israel for the assaults.
At the very least 37 folks, together with youngsters, have been killed within the twin device attacks, and almost 3,000 others have been injured, in accordance with Lebanese officers.
A Lebanese safety supply advised CNN on the time that the explosive materials was “laced” contained in the pager’s lithium battery and was hidden in such a classy method that it was just about undetectable.
As battle continues to accentuate within the Middle East, flights proceed to face disruption.
In its newest replace Friday, Emirates, the area’s largest airline, stated flights from and to Lebanon’s capital, Beirut, stay canceled up till and together with October 15. Passengers transiting by means of Dubai to get to Beirut will even “not be accepted for journey at their level of origin till additional discover,” it stated.
Emirates added that it’ll resume providers to Jordan’s capital, Amman, on Sunday, whereas its flights to and from Iraq and Iran will stay canceled as much as and together with Monday.
A number of different airways have additionally canceled flights to Beirut and different regional airports.