Japan's Icom Denies Its Exploding Products In Lebanon

Various Icom walkie-talkie products. (doc. Icom europe)

JAKARTA Japan's electronics company, Icom, has strongly denied allegations that the wireless devices that exploded in Lebanon some time ago were their products.

In an official statement released on Friday, according to Reuters, September 21, Icom stated that based on the various information that had been collected, it was very unlikely that the exploding device was a product of their company.

This statement came after the circulation of a walkie-talkie image used by the armed group Hezbollah Lebanon. On the device, the label reads "ICOM" and "Japanese-made" clearly visible. The explosion involving the walkie-talkie occurred last Wednesday.

Although there is visual evidence that leads to Icom products, the company still insists that after an internal investigation, the conclusion taken is that the device is not an original Icom product.

Earlier, exactly a day after the explosion of the pager simultaneously in Lebanon on September 17, a walkie-talkie device exploded in various parts of Lebanon.

According to the Lebanese Ministry of Health, 37 people were killed and more than 3,000 injured as a result of the explosion.

The Hezbollah Movement and the Lebanese government blamed Israel for the incident.

Israeli authorities did not justify or deny their involvement.