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Japan walkie-talkie maker Icom investigating radio devices with its logo after Lebanon blasts

The blasts came a day after the simultaneous explosion of hundreds of paging devices used by Hezbollah.

TOKYO: Japanese firm Icom said on Thursday (Sep 19) that it had stopped producing the model of radios reportedly used in recent blasts in Lebanon around 10 years ago. A source close to Hezbollah said walkie-talkies used by its members blew up in its Beirut stronghold, with state media reporting similar blasts in south and east Lebanon. They came a day after the simultaneous explosion of hundreds of paging devices used by Hezbollah killed 12 people, including two children, and wounded up to 2,800 others across Lebanon, in an unprecedented attack blamed on Israel.

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