Gold Apollo says it did not make pagers used in Lebanon blasts

Hsu Ching-Kuang, head of Taiwanese company Gold Apollo, speaks to the media outside the company's office in New Taipei City on Sept. 18, 2024. The company denied that it produced hundreds of explosive-packed pagers used by Hezbollah members which simultaneously exploded. Pagers on display at a meeting room at the Gold Apollo company building in New Taipei City, Taiwan, Sept. 18, 2024.

Taiwan's Gold Apollo said on Wednesday the pagers that were used in the detonations in Lebanon on Tuesday were not made by it but by a company called BAC which has a license to use its brand.