Twenty people died and another 450 were injured in another round of explosives in two days in parts of Lebanon under Hezbollah control on Wednesday. There are worries that communication gadgets, such walkie-talkies made by a Japanese manufacturer, might have been involved in the explosions. Leobanon Blasts kill 20 and injure 450 investigating Lebanon Blasts Japanese Devices.
Lebanon Blasts Japanese Devices Connections
Tokyo: Japanese company Icom announced on Thursday that it had ceased manufacturing the type of radios that were allegedly used ten years ago or more in recent explosions in Lebanon.
“From 2004 until October 2014, the IC-V82 handheld radio was manufactured and exported, with shipments going to the Middle East.” It hasn’t been sent from our company since it was discontinued over ten years ago, according to a statement from Icom.
“The production of the batteries needed to operate the main unit has also been discontinued, and a hologram seal to distinguish counterfeit products was not attached, so it is not possible to confirm whether the product shipped from our company,” added the statement.
No parts other than those specified by our company are utilized in a product since all of our radios are made at our production subsidiary, Wakayama Icom Inc., in Wakayama Prefecture, under a stringent management system. Furthermore, we don’t outsource the production of our radios—all of them are made at the same facility,” the statement added.
In Hezbollah strongholds in Lebanon, there were around 450 injuries and 20 fatalities on Wednesday due to the second wave of device explosions in as many days, according to officials.
Hezbollah’s stronghold in Beirut was the scene of a walkie-talkie explosion, according to a person close to the organization, and similar explosions were reported by state media across south and east Lebanon.
They occurred one day after an unprecedented attack attributed on Israel resulted in the simultaneous detonation of hundreds of Hezbollah-used incendiary devices, killing 12 people—including two children—and injuring up to 2,800 more around Lebanon.
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Israel did not respond to the statement. Opponents of “an escalation of any kind” were cautioned by the White House.
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