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Lebanon’s health minister says 8 killed, 2,750 wounded by exploding pagers
(www.aljazeera.com)
This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
Perhaps the latter? My first thought is still that the pagers intended use was for triggering explosives, and they were simply triggered early by the other side.
You would not put it inside the pager if you want to use it as a trigger. You would also not ready-make thousands of those and let thousands of people carry them around.