Icom Inc., whose brand appears on devices that exploded in Lebanon, said it halted production a decade ago of the model allegedly used in the attacks.

Icom is looking into reports that its two-way radios were denotated in attacks across Lebanon Wednesday, which killed at least 20 people and injured more than 450.

The walkie-talkies that exploded in Lebanon Wednesday have not been made for over a decade, according to Japan's Icom Inc. The company's brand name was on the devices.

Japanese firm Icom said Thursday that it had stopped producing the model of radios reportedly used in recent blasts in Lebanon around 10 years ago.

Japanese telecommunications company Icom said Thursday that it was no longer producing the model of walkie-talkies used in a new wave of explosions involving wireless devices in Lebanon that killed at least 26 people and injured hundreds a day earlier.

Japanese radio equipment maker Icom Inc said on Thursday that it was investigating the facts regarding news reports that two-way radio devices bearing its logo have exploded in Lebanon.

Hezbollah militants have been previously linked to the IC-V82. In 2022, United Against Nuclear Iran, a privately funded group advocating stronger sanctions on Iran, had warned that Hezbollah was using Icom’s devices. And a Hezbollah fighter was photographed in 2022 wearing an Icom two-way radio.

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,