Lithium-ion battery fires are dangerous, but small batteries alone don't usually cause this much damage.

Both Wiens and MG said a supply-chain attack in which a remote-triggered explosive was surreptitiously placed into the pagers before they were distributed is more likely. There is precedent for this: in 1996, Israel put a bomb inside of a cell phone and used it to kill Yahya Ayyash, who was then a bomb maker for Hamas.

  • ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.orgEnglish
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    2 months ago

    Call them Li-Ion batteries to prevent confusion with lithium batteries such as CR-2032, which probably have been used in pagers.