Dhaka, March 20 -- Czech investigators are investigating an overnight fire at an industrial complex as potentially being a deliberate attack, officials said on Friday, following media reports that a group protesting against Israeli weapons claimed responsibility.

Firefighters said early on Friday on X that they had responded to a fire at a storage hall in a complex in Pardubice, 120 km (75 miles) east of Prague. No one was injured in the fire, which spread to another building.

Czech news website Aktualne.cz reported that a protest group said it had set fire to a "key manufacturing hub" for Israeli weapons in Pardubice to end its role in the "genocide in Gaza."

Czech defence firm LPP Holding, with a location in the complex, confirmed a ...