Norway issues warrant for man linked to Lebanon device blasts
Norwegian police issued an international search request for Rinson Jose, a Norwegian-Indian man linked to the sale of pagers to the Lebanese group Hezbollah that exploded last week.
Jose, 39, disappeared while on a work trip to the US last week. He is a founder of a Bulgarian company reportedly part of the pager supply chain.
Police last week opened an investigation into a Norwegian man’s alleged links to the blasts. “A missing persons case has been opened and we have issued an international search for the person,” Mari Elise Bunaes Myhrer of the Oslo police told broadcaster NRK.
Hundreds of pagers and walkie-talkies detonated across Lebanon last week, killing at least 37 people and wounding nearly 3,000 in an attack widely blamed on Israel, which has refused to comment.