Japan's Icom said it was highly unlikely that wireless devices that exploded in Lebanon were the company's products.

Lebanese officials said that 12 people had been killed on Tuesday, including a young girl. Hezbollah said that at least eight of its fighters were among the day’s dead and more than 2,700 people were injured in Lebanon — including Iran’s ambassador to the country.

Hundreds of wireless devices exploded at the same time across Lebanon on Tuesday, causing many to be injured and leading the Lebanese Health Ministry to advise people to stay away from their pager-like devices, multiple outlets reported.

For millions of Lebanese, this week's mass explosion of pagers and walkie-talkies, with its bloody aftermath, is painfully similar to the horrific explosion four years ago of haphazardly stored ammonium nitrates that tore through Beirut's port,

The simultaneous explosion of thousands of pagers used by Lebanese militia Hezbollah on Tuesday was the result of an unprecedented weaponization of a wireless paging system, in which rigged devices detonated upon receiving a coded signal transmitted by radio frequency.

The attack on the militant group has prompted several investigations into the supply chain behind the devices that detonated this week.

Israel launched a series of strikes on Hezbollah targets Thursday as the war against the Lebanon-based group widened in the wake of two consecutive days of deadly explosions triggered in wireless devices.