Hungarian government says exploding pagers were not made in its country

 The pagers used in a deadly attack in Lebanon on Tuesday were not manufactured in Hungary, despite reported links to a company based in the central European country, a Hungarian government spokesperson said on Wednesday.

It comes after a Taiwanese company, whose trademark appears on the pagers that exploded, said the models used in Lebanon were designed and made by its distributor BAC Consulting — based in Hungary’s capital Budapest. 

“Authorities have confirmed that the company in question is a trading intermediary, with no manufacturing or operational site in Hungary,” Hungarian government spokesperson Zoltan Kovacs said in a post on X. 

“It has one manager registered at its declared address, and the referenced devices have never been in Hungary,” he added.

Kovacs said Hungarian national security services are “cooperating with all relevant i