Venezuelans should not accept gifts of any electronics and be careful with their phones after the massive explosions in Lebanon, said President Nicolas Maduro. According to him, which was broadcast by the local television channel VTV, he prefers to give books, coffee, alcohol or sweets as gifts.
Don’t accept electronics as gifts, be careful with your phones, see what happened in Lebanon , Maduro said .
On September 17, pagers exploded in different parts of Lebanon. At least four thousand people were injured, 11 could not be saved, including an eight-year-old child and the son of a Hezbollah leader. The explosions continued on September 18: after pagers and radios, laptops, walkie-talkies, and cell phones began to explode .
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk, commenting on the situation in Lebanon, said that the explosion of electronics violated humanitarian law. He added that he was deeply shocked by what happened, since not only civilians suffered in the country, but panic and general fear began.