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Companies deny making devices that detonated in Lebanon

Marketplace All-in-One

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News, Business

4.51.4K Ratings

🗓️ 19 September 2024

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Summary

From the BBC World Service: As questions are being asked about how walkie talkies and pagers were detonated in Lebanon, an action which killed at least 30 people and injured thousands, two manufacturers — Japan’s Icom and Taiwan’s Gold Apollo — have denied any link to the deadly blasts. We’ll dig in. Also: Why has a Chinese milk tea company been forced to apologize over a social media video?

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Questions over the origin of thousands of walkie talkies and pages used in deadly attacks in Lebanon.

1:02.0

Live from the UK, this is the Marketplace Morning Report from the BBC World Service.

1:06.4

I'm Stuart Clarkson in full Leanna Byrne.

1:08.8

Good morning.

1:09.8

So investigations are ongoing into the explosion of thousands of electronic devices used by members of the Hezbollah militant group.

1:17.0

The attacks have killed more than 30 people in Lebanon now and injured around 2,500 in total. The big questions being asked are where the

1:25.3

pages and walkie talkies came from and who made them? The BBC's Mariko

1:29.4

Oi is with us. Good morning, Marico. Good morning. So the walkie talk is first that exploded. These had

1:35.2

markings on suggesting they came from a manufacturer in Japan. Yeah it's been

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