Taiwanese company Gold Apollo clears air on exploding pagers targeting Hezbollah in Lebanon, Says ‘pagers were..’

After 9 people were killed and 2,800 injured in an attack that targeted pagers held by members of Hezbollah across Lebanon, a Taiwanese company has come out with a clarification after its name cropped up in the incident.

Taiwanese company Gold Apollo said that the blast befell in pagers were not the corporate’s product. Gold Apollo founder Hsu Ching Kuang said that the products did not belong to teh company , best its name became used in its making.

Kuang said the pagers were manufactured by an European company and it has the right to make use of Gold Apollo’s name. But he did not reveal the corporate, adding that the incident became very unfortunate and shameful.

Hezbollah has blamed Israel for pager explosions and pledged retribution. Meanwhile, Lebanese officials urged folks who possess pagers to discard them.
Over one hundred hospitals in Lebanon — largely in the southern suburbs of Beirut, southern Lebanon and the Beqaa valley — received injured people.

Reports suggest that Hezbollah figures in Syria were also injured in the apparently simultaneous blasts. Also injured became Iran’s Ambassador to Lebanon, Mojtaba Amani.

Social media is rife with videos that caught the explosions, their aftermath, and chaos in Lebanese hospitals. Unverified Arab media reports have attributed the blasts to an Israeli cyber attack.

Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi held a telephonic conversation with his Lebanon counterpart Abdallah Bou Habib on Tuesday. At some point of the phone-call, he blamed Israel for a series of pager explosions in Lebanon, labelling it “Israeli terrorism.”

Araghchi asked in regards to the condition of Iran’s ambassador to Lebanon, Mojtaba Amani, who became injured in the explosions, and thanked Lebanon for his treatment, CNN reported, citing Press TV. He offered team spirit with victims and expressed willingness to give aid to victims.