Man tied to company suspected of supplying explosive pagers to Hezbollah is declared missing

that left 39 people dead and more than 3,000 injured in Lebanon in a suspected Israeli attack targeting Hezbollah, Norwegian police said.

Rinson, who founded the company in 2022, has not been seen since leaving for a conference in Boston on Sept. 17, the same day the pagers were detonated. Reporters were able to briefly contact him over the phone following the attack, with Rinson declining to comment before going completely dark the following day.

Following the deadly pager attacks and follow-up walkie-talkie explosions, reports emerged that the Israeli spy agency Mossad had intercepted the shipment of communication devices five months ago and rigged them with pentaerythritol tetranitrate, a highly explosive material.

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