Exploding Hezbollah Pagers Reportedly Linked to Hungarian Company [Video]

File photo of a mural in Beirut.

In Beirut and other parts of Lebanon, radio sets and solar panel equipment exploded on Wednesday in a second wave of attacks on devices, a day after pagers used by Hezbollah exploded, AP News reports. A Budapest-based company has also been linked to the case, with primary press reports suggesting that the Hungarian BAC Consulting may have manufactured the pagers. However, this was quickly disproved, and authorities are satisfied that the company concerned was a trading company with no manufacturing or production facilities in Hungary, with a single manager at the registered address, and that the devices in question had never been in the country.

The attacks, widely believed to have been carried out by Israel against Hezbollah, have heightened fears that the latent conflict between the two sides could escalate into all-out war.

During Wednesday’s attacks, several explosions were heard at a funeral in Beirut for three Hezbollah members and a …