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Czechs probe arms company fire over ‘terror attack link’; anti-Israel group takes responsibility
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleCzech police are investigating a fire that broke out at an arms company on Friday as a potential terror attack, the interior minister says, after an anti-Israel group claimed responsibility.
“We are examining all available information. There is a likely link to a terror attack,” Interior Minister Lubomir Metnar says on X, after the fire brigade said a blaze broke out at a warehouse in a business park.
Arms producer LPP Holdings says in a statement that the fire broke out on its premises.
The company has in the past said it cooperated with Israel’s Elbit Systems.
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