Lebanese pagers explosions: What is a pager, how it works and reasons why it may explode

A series of explosion of pagers in Lebanon resulted in at least nine fatalities, injuring over 2,700. The blasts occurred on Tuesday (Sep 17) in Beirut’s southern suburbs and other areas. In a statement, Hezbollah said that at 3:30 pm (1230 GMT) pagers used by people working for the group’s institutions began exploding “mysteriously.”A senior Lebanese security source claimed that Israel’s Mossad spy agency planted explosives inside these pagers or “beepers” that were ordered months before the blasts. Taiwan’s Gold Apollo has refused that it did not make the pagers used in the detonations. Instead, they had been manufactured by a company called BAC which has a licence to use its brand, the company said.