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Blast rocks Hungary's capital, two injured
Published in The Saudi Gazette on 26 - 09 - 2016

An explosion rocked central Budapest late on Saturday, injuring two police officers, Hungarian police said on Sunday.
Police have yet to identify the cause of the blast, they said in a statement. "The local and expert examination of the origins of the explosion and the review of the damage is under way," the statement said.
The blast was next to an unused store front on a one of the busiest thoroughfares in central Budapest. Images on local news media showed a ruined doorway. Nearby windows and cars were damaged in the blast, witnesses said.
Police said there were no further injuries caused by the explosion, which occurred at 10:36 p.m. local time (2036 GMT).
A government spokesman declined to comment on whether the blast may have been a deliberate attack.
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban has been a vocal opponent of immigration into Europe and is urging voters to reject EU quotas for resettling migrants in Hungary in a referendum next Sunday, arguing immigration increases security risks.
Hungary has seen only a trickle of migrants since it sealed its southern border with Serbia with a razor wire fence last year.
Police cordoned off a wide area around the Oktogon square in central Budapest and told residents to leave buildings nearest the blast, local media reported. The normally busy intersection was packed with witnesses, including tourists.
News web site index.hu quoted an email from an eyewitness, who said he saw a nail lodged in a taxi nearby. Photos also showed a few nails on the ground with police chalk marks around them.
"Windows on two cars passing by on the opposite side (about 20 meters) were broken," the witness wrote. "There were several small dents in both cars. A taxi cab had a 50 millimeter nail lodged in its light."
Hungarian Kadosa Bencsy said his first thought was that Budapest was suffering an attack along the lines of those that have hit Brussels, Paris and Nice in recent months.
"I have to say frankly that I have been fearing such a thing for a while," he told Reuters at the scene. "The possibility is there, that anywhere in the European Union it could happen." — Reuters


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