Hungary denies link to exploding pagers used in Lebanon attack

The pagers that detonated in Lebanon on Tuesday were never in Hungary, said the government of Prime Minister Viktor Orban in a statement on Wednesday.

The Taiwanese pager company Gold Apollo said earlier on Wednesday the pagers used in the attack were made by Budapest-based BAC Consulting, and that it had only licensed its brand to the company but was not involved in the production of the devices.

"Hungarian authorities have established that the company in question is a trading-intermediary company, which has no manufacturing or other site of operation in Hungary," Hungarian government spokesman Zoltan Kovacs said on Facebook.