TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — Taiwanese company Gold Apollo said Wednesday that it authorized its brand on the pagers that exploded in Lebanon and Syria but that another company based in Budapest manufactured them.

Taiwan's Gold Apollo said on Wednesday the pagers used in the detonations in Lebanon had not been made by it but by a company called BAC which has a licence to use its brand. At least nine people were killed and nearly 3,

The pagers, deemed by Hezbollah to be safer than cellphones, were probably rigged with explosives before they were delivered to Lebanon, experts said.