Japanese manufacturer ICOM said it has not supplied the brand of walkie-talkie reportedly used in a mass attack in 10 years and warned about counterfeits.
A Japanese manufacturer that supplies the U.S. military also supplied walkie-talkies reportedly used in Wednesday’s mass attack in Lebanon.
The company, ICOM, has supplied millions of dollars worth of equipment to the Pentagon for more than 30 years.
Pagers used by hundreds of Hezbollah members exploded near-simultaneously in Lebanon and Syria on Tuesday, killing at least 12 people, including two young children, and wounding thousands more.
The next day a second wave of explosions, reportedly involving walkie-talkies used by the Iran-backed militant group bearing the ICOM logo, killed at least 20 people and wounded 450, The Associated Press reports.
Both attacks are believed to have been carried out by Israel, which is yet to make any official comment about them.
The U.S. government has said that it had no advanced knowledge of the Lebanon attacks.
ICOM said in a statement on Wednesday that it is investigating whether its walkie-talkies were involved in the attacks.
The company said that it had stopped making the walkie-talkie model believed to have been used in Wednesday’s attacks and only shipped it to international markets from 2004 to October 2014.
