A woman who was educated in the UK has denied making the Hezbollah pagers that killed 12 and wounded thousands more in Lebanon.
The pagers are widely reported to have been tampered with by Israeli spy agency Mossad, although Israel declined to comment.More devices exploded in Lebanon on Wednesday, around 24 hours after the first series of blasts. At least three people were thought to have died and 100 injured by the exploding walkie-talkies.The pagers that exploded on Tuesday bore the branding of Gold Apollo, but the Taiwanese company said that they were actually manufactured by Hungarian firm BAC Consulting KFT.
The pagers targeted in the attack had been acquired by Hezbollah after the group's leader told members in February to stop using mobile phones.Nearly 3,000 people are believed to have been injured in the coordinated remote attack on Tuesday, with 200 still in critical condition. It is unclear how many were hurt on the second day of explosions.
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