Taiwanese security authorities are investigating the explosion of pagers in Lebanon that are associated with local company Gold Apollo, the head of the island’s Defense Ministry, Gu Lixiong, told reporters.
Earlier, Reuters, citing sources, reported that Israel’s Mossad intelligence agency planted a small amount of explosives in 5,000 Taiwanese-made pagers ordered by Hezbollah from the Gold Apollo company. In turn, the Taiwanese company said the exploded pager model was produced and developed by Budapest-based BAC CONSULTING KFT.
“Taiwanese security authorities are investigating and paying attention to this matter, the Ministry of Defense has nothing to do with this matter.” – Gu Lixiong is quoted by Radio Taiwan International.
Official representative of the island’s defense department. sun lifan He said the Taiwanese Ministry of Defense could not provide any explanation regarding the Taiwanese company, the radio added.
On Tuesday, pagers were detonated in different parts of Lebanon. Up to 2,800 people were injured and 12 died. Lebanese authorities blamed Israel for the incident.
