The Japanese producer of the walkie-talkies linked to explosions that killed 20 Hezbollah members and injured a whole bunch in Lebanon distanced itself from the incident saying it couldn’t have produced the explosive units.
“There’s no way a bomb could have been integrated into one of our devices during manufacturing. The process is highly automated and fast-paced, so there’s no time for such things,” Yoshiki Enomoto a director at ICOM advised Reuters exterior the corporate’s headquarters in Osaka, Japan on Thursday.
The detonation of hand-held radios utilized by Hezbollah on Wednesday in Beirut’s suburbs and the Bekaa Valley, adopted a collection of digital pager explosions Tuesday that killed no less than 12 individuals, together with two youngsters, and injured 3,000 others.
ICOM has mentioned it halted manufacturing of the radio fashions recognized within the assault a decade in the past and that the majority of these nonetheless on sale have been counterfeit.
“If it turns out to be counterfeit, then we’ll have to investigate how someone created a bomb that looks like our product. If it’s genuine, we’ll have to trace its distribution to figure out how it ended up there,” Enomoto mentioned.
Source: www.dailysabah.com