The Taiwanese firm Gold Apollo is believed to have manufactured the devices but it said it had authorized BAC Consulting, a firm registered in Hungary, to use its brand for product sales in certain regions. Annabelle Chih/Getty Images

Bulgaria says it didn’t make the exploding pagers – POLITICO

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The mystery of the exploding pagers that hit Hezbollah members this week grew on Friday, as Bulgarian authorities denied the detonation devices were manufactured, imported or exported on its territory.

In a new statement, the country's State Agency for National Security (DANS) said that it has carried out inspections across various ministries and established “beyond doubt that no communication devices were imported, exported or manufactured in Bulgaria corresponding to those blown up" in Lebanon and Syria.

Israeli security services are believed to have hit the Lebanon-based terrorist group by simultaneously triggering minute quantities of explosive hidden in thousands of pagers and walkie-talkies starting Tuesday. The explosions left at least 37 dead and hundreds maimed and injured across Lebanon and Syria.