Hezbollah pagers that exploded were made in Hungary, Taiwanese company says

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Taiwanese pager firm Gold Apollo said Wednesday that its brand of pager that exploded in Lebanon and Syria were made by another company based in Hungary.

Hundreds of pagers that exploded in Lebanon and Syria in an apparent operation targeting members of Hezbollah bore the brand of a Taiwanese company, though the firm’s chair told reporters Wednesday that another company in Budapest manufactured the devices. Near-simultaneous detonations of pagers used by members of the Iran-backed Hezbollah terror group killed at least 12 people, including two children, and wounded nearly 3,000 on Tuesday.

Gold Apollo chair Hsu Ching-kuang told reporters Wednesday that his company has had a licensing agreement with BAC for the past three years, though he provided no evidence of the contract. The pagers started heating up and exploding around 3:30 p.m. Tuesday.

Hezbollah and the Lebanese government blamed Israel for what appeared to be a sophisticated remote attack. The Israeli government has not commented. Experts believe a sophisticated supply chain infiltration occurred, during which explosive material was secreted into the pagers prior to their delivery and use. Osher Assor, managing partner at Israeli cybersecurity consulting firm Auren, told the Wall Street Journal that such an operation would have taken at least a year to plan.

Both U.S. State Department spokesman Matt Miller and White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre told reporters during separate daily briefings on Tuesday that the U.S. was not involved in the incident or aware of the incident prior to the explosions. The Associated Press contributed to this report.

 

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