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Hezbollah will respond if Beirut blast was sabotage, says Nasrallah

Reuters WORLD
Published August 14,2020
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An image grab taken from al-Manar TV on August 14, 2020, shows the head of Lebanon's Shiite Muslim movement Hezbollah Hassan Nasrallah during a televised speech from an undisclosed location in Lebanon. (Photo by - / AL-MANAR TV / AFP)

Hezbollah's leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah said on Friday that his group would wait for results of a probe into the Beirut port blast, but that if it turns out to be an act of sabotage by Israel then it would "pay an equal price".

Speaking in a televised speech, he said the two theories under investigation were that an accident or sabotage caused the explosion of ammonium nitrate stored at a warehouse. Israel has denied any involvement in the Aug. 4 blast that killed 172 people and injured 6,000.