The Taiwan-based company said in a statement that the AR-924 model used in the attack was manufactured and sold by a Hungarian company called BAC Consulting.Yan Zhao/AFP via Getty Images

Hungarian company built Hezbollah’s exploding pagers, Taiwanese firm says – POLITICO

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A Taiwanese company said the exploding pagers that injured thousands of people across Lebanon on Tuesday were actually manufactured in Hungary.

Hezbollah, the Lebanese militant group and political party, claimed that Israel was behind the security incident that struck its members. The New York Times also reported, citing U.S. and other officials, that Israel hid explosives in the batch of detonated pagers.

The pagers, which went off simultaneously, killing nine people and wounding nearly 3,000, had branding consistent with pagers made by Gold Apollo, a Taiwanese pager manufacturing firm.