Hungarian intelligence services have conducted several interviews with the CEO of BAC Consulting, a Budapest-based company linked to deadly explosions of pagers used by Hezbollah members this week, the Hungarian government said on Saturday.

That has put a lesser-known Budapest-based consulting firm in focus. A Hungarian firm, BAC Consulting, is being linked to the thousands of pagers that exploded in Lebanon, killing at least nine people and leaving nearly 3,

Then, at 3.30pm local time on Tuesday, thousands of Gold Apollo-branded pagers exploded in Beirut, plunging the Lebanese capital into a panic, and sending hundreds of members of the powerful Lebanese militant group, Hizbollah, to overcrowded hospitals with mangled hands, facial injuries and worse.

Hours after 12 were killed and thousands injured in surprise attack, details are emerging about the origins of the weaponised devices

Israel's Mossad spy agency planted explosives inside 5,000 pagers imported by Lebanese group Hezbollah months before Tuesday's detonations that killed nine people, a senior Lebanese security source and another source told Reuters.

Israel's Mossad spy agency planted explosives in 5,000 Taiwan-made pagers ordered by Hezbollah, leading to detonations across Lebanon that killed nine people and injured nearly 3,000. The operation, which targeted Hezbollah fighters and Iran's envoy to Beirut,

Hundreds of Hezbollah terrorists were wounded across Lebanon on Tuesday when their communication devices exploded, according to Lebanese reports, which cited “security sources” and eyewitnesses. A Reuters journalist saw 10 terrorists bleeding from wounds in Beirut’s southern suburb of Dahiya,