Footage of a man injured on the streets of Beirut following mass PAGER bombings across the the country of Lebanon.
READ MORE: Hungary insisted today that a Budapest firm linked to Hezbollah pagers that detonated in Lebanon yesterday had never built the gadgets in the country - as questions mount over how the devices laden with explosives reached the group in the Middle East.
But Gold Apollo executives this morning said the company had only authorised its brand on the devices, and that they were manufactured and sold by Hungary's BAC Consulting KFT. Ambulances rushed through the southern suburbs of Beirut amid widespread panic, and hospitals were overwhelmed with patients.
Still, mystery surrounds how the devices used by Hezbollah came to be equipped with explosives, apparently capable of being detonated remotely. Gold Apollo's chair, Hsu Ching-kuang, told journalists Wednesday the firm has had a licensing agreement with BAC for the past three years. Barsony-Arcidiacono appears to be the only employee of the company founded in 2022, according to legal documents consulted by AFP, which also report an annual revenue of 210 million forints and profit of around 18 million forints.
Senior Hezbollah execs stopped bringing their phones into meetings. Supporters were told to bury their phones or lock them away.
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