I will be very surprised if these exploding pagers turn out to be "it was the batteries".
ive destroyed a BUNCH of lipo packs. ive flown them into trees at high speed, ive stabbed them to watch them sputter and flame. Lipos can cause problems, sure, but lipo batteries, especially tiny ones that could go in pagers, simply dont have the oomph to explode hard enough to kill people
these had to have been mossadded somehow
regular batteries do not do this.
they are MADE not to
because consumers