2 weeks Ago By France 24
Taiwan said on Friday that hundreds of pagers that exploded in Lebanon on Tuesday were not made in Taiwan after prosecutors prosecutors questioned two people associated with Gold Apollo, the Taiwanese company that produced the communication devices. Two people from Taiwanese companies were questioned as part of a probe into pagers that exploded while being used by Hezbollah operatives in Lebanon, investigators said Friday, as top officials insisted the devices were not from the island. Questions and speculation have swirled over where the devices came from and how they were supplied to the militant group after hundreds of pagers and walkie-talkies detonated across on Tuesday and Wednesday, killing at least 37 people and wounding nearly 3,000.
The New York Times reported this week that Israel had inserted explosive material into a shipment of pagers from 's Gold Apollo, citing American and other anonymous officials. But Gold Apollo head Hsu Ching-kuang denied producing the devices, pointing the finger instead at Hungary-based partner BAC Consulting KFT, which Gold Apollo had allowed to use its trademark. "Our country takes the case very seriously," said the prosecutors' office in Taipei's Shilin district in a statement Friday.
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