The cause of a blast in Hungary that injured two police officers late Saturday remains unknown, although news report on public television say security cameras had recorded a bag being left at the scene shortly before the explosion.
Unconfirmed police sources also tell local media that an investigation has been launched into attempted murder.
A homemade bomb device was likely to have been behind the blast, an explosives expert Attila Ladocsi tells news outlet M1.
Police are to give a detailed account of the investigation later Sunday, a government spokesman Bence Tuzson tells the MTI news agency.
Hungarian police officials investigate an explosion of unknown origin in Budapest on September 25, 2016. (AFP/Ferenc ISZA)
A session of the national security parliamentary committee has been convened for Monday its chairperson tells MTI.
No information has been released on the injured police officers’ condition, nor confirmation of local media reports that one of the injured was a woman.
Forensic personnel have been combing the area for clues, while police carry out door-to-door inquiries with residents.
— AFP
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