The Norwegian was named as the owner of a company in Bulgaria which allegedly sold pagers to Hezbollah. The company is linked to the many explosions in Lebanon on Tuesday and Wednesday, where at least 32 people were killed and over 3,000 injured when, among other things, pagers exploded. – No one has been able to get hold of him since Wednesday. We are concerned and have contacted the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, says the employer to news. news has asked the man’s employer to elaborate on whether they know of anyone who has had contact with him. Have worked for a long time in a Norwegian company – I only know of our workplace that has tried to get hold of him. And we haven’t got hold of him. HERE IT EXPLODES: Video from a surveillance camera that is said to have captured the explosions. The employer will not go into detail, but says they have tried calling and sending messages. – And tried other alternative methods where we think it is possible to find out where he might be and can’t be, but we have not been successful so far. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs confirms that the employer has contacted them. – Beyond this, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs has no role in this matter, writes communication adviser Guri Solberg in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. – My impression is that the Ministry of Foreign Affairs takes this seriously, says the employer. GREAT POWER: Walkie-talkies also exploded on Wednesday this week. Photo: AP The Norwegian has worked for the Norwegian company since 2020. The trip to the USA has been planned for several months, the employer says. – We do not know if he has any role in this. We don’t know what his situation is, we don’t know how he feels, says the employer. – We are worried about what his situation is when he does not answer us. We do not know what kind of circumstances he is in. Concerned relatives Reuters has written that the Norwegian answered a journalist at their place earlier this week. He reportedly hung up when the news agency asked questions about the Bulgarian company. news has not been able to get hold of family members of the man. A foreign newspaper and a news agency have been in contact with a relative of the man. – We talk daily over the phone. But for the last three days we have had no contact with NN. He is a decent person and we trust him completely, says the relative to the news agency. CHAOS: The video shows the panic at a hospital in Lebanon after the attacks on Tuesday. The relative believes the Norwegian will not be involved in anything wrong. According to the relative, the alternative is that the Norwegian has been set in a trap or has been tricked into something. Another relative is also concerned and tells a newspaper that he has never heard of any Bulgarian company owned by the Norwegian. news has been in contact with friends and acquaintances of the Norwegian. – I am very surprised that he appears around such a case. I know him as a good, caring person, says one of them. A former colleague of the Norwegian describes him as a “fairly anonymous, smiling person”. Has pointed to several countries The traces of the pager attack have pointed to both Taiwan, Hungary, Bulgaria and Norway. The Bulgarian security service DANS says none of the pagers used in the Lebanon attack were imported to, exported from or manufactured in Bulgaria. The Taiwan-based company Gold Apollo has denied that the pagers were made by them, and the Hungarian company BAC Consulting has stated that they have only acted as intermediaries. This is how the attack happened: A company in Hungary pretended to produce pagers, of which Hezbollah is said to have ordered 5,000. What they did not know was that Israel was behind the company. In the pagers they hid explosives and sent them to Lebanon. Hezbollah still knew nothing about Israel’s involvement and used the equipment. Seconds after Israel pressed the button, it exploded all over Lebanon. Several were killed and many were injured, both adults and children. Source: Anonymous sources to the New York Times (NYT) and investigations by BBC Verify. Israel has neither confirmed nor denied that it is behind the attacks. Published 20.09.2024, at 19.03 Updated 20.09.2024, at 19.21
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– No one has got hold of him – news Norway – Overview of news from various parts of the country
