From Japan’s Icom says highly unlikely it made the exploding walkie-talkies with its logo
A man holds a walkie-talkie device with the logo of Japanese firm Icom, after he removed the battery during the funeral of persons killed when pagers distributed to Hezbollah operatives exploded across Lebanon the previous day, in an attack blamed on Israel, in Beirut's southern suburbs on September 18, 2024. (Anwar Amro/AFP)
TOKYO — Japan’s Icom says it’s highly unlikely that wireless devices that exploded in Lebanon were the company’s products.
Pictures of the walkie-talkies used by Lebanese armed group Hezbollah that exploded on Wednesday showed labels reading “ICOM” and “made in Japan.”
“In light of multiple pieces of information that have been revealed so for, chances are extremely low that the wireless devices that exploded were our products,” Icom says in a statement dated on Friday.
