What we know about the Hungary-based company facing questions over pager attacks in Lebanon

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A Bulgarian firm could be the next to face scrutiny over the supply of pagers which later blew up.

A Hungary-based company remains firmly in the spotlight after the pager attacks targeting Hezbollah in Lebanon. Sky News looks at what we know about BAC Consulting and its Italian-born chief executive after exploding pager communication devices killed at least 37 people and wounded around 3,000 others. Images of destroyed pagers were consistent with those made by the Taiwanese firm Gold Apollo - which says the pagers were made by BAC Consulting, which has a licence to use its brand.

Sky correspondent Dan Whitehead travelled to Ujpest - a suburb of Budapest - to an apartment belonging to Ms Barsony-Arcidiacono's family. One neighbour described her as a 'highly educated' woman and said he hadn't seen her in several years. Sky News has tried to contact Ms Barsony-Arcidiacono but received no response. But asked about the pagers and the explosions by NBC News, Sky News' US partner, she said: 'I don't make the pagers. I am just the intermediate.

 

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