The model of pagers used in detonations in Lebanon were made by Budapest-based BAC Consulting, Taiwanese pager firm Gold Apollo said on Wednesday, adding it had only licensed out its brand to the company and was not involved in the production of the devices.

Cristiana Barsony-Arcidiacono is the owner of BAC Consulting - the Hungary-based company that licensed the pager design from Taiwan manufacturer Gold Apollo.

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

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.

Gold Apollo, a wireless communications device manufacturer in Taiwan, said it did not make the pagers used in the Lebanon explosion attack.

Gold Apollo authorised pagers that exploded in Lebanon and Syria, manufactured by a Budapest-based company, blamed on Israel.