Panic in Beirut as Israeli warplanes break sound barrier three times

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Panic in Beirut as ******** warplanes break sound barrier three times

BEIRUT (Reuters) -******** warplanes broke the sound barrier three times over Beirut in less than 30 minutes on Tuesday, leading to loud booms that sent people in the city running for cover just ahead of a speech by the head of the powerful Iran-backed group Hezbollah.

******** warplanes flew low over the Lebanese capital, with witnesses saying they could see the planes with the ****** eye. The booms were the loudest heard in Beirut in years.

One Reuters reporter saw people at a cafe in Beirut’s Badaro district scatter as the sound reverberated through the city.

Hezbollah chief Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah was set to begin an address at around 5 p.m. (1400 GMT) to mark one week since the ******** of the Lebanese armed group’s top military commander Fuad Shukr in an ******** strike in Beirut’s southern suburbs.

Hezbollah has promised to respond to the ********, which came just hours before the ************** of ****** leader Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran in an operation blamed on ******* but which ******* has not confirmed or denied undertaking.

The twin killings have pushed the region to the brink of war, with Iran also vowing a painful response.

(Reporting by Timour Azhari and Laila Bassam; Editing by Alex Richardson)

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