Target Police officers Non-fatal injuries 3 Start date September 24, 2016 Attack type Bomb | Weapons Nail bomb Perpetrator László Gergely P. Total number of deaths 0 | |
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Location Oktogon, Budapest, Hungary | ||
The September 2016 Budapest explosion occurred on 24 September 2016 when a young man detonated a nail bomb to kill two patrolling police officers. A policeman and a policewoman suffered injuries but survived the attack. After the incident the police chief in charge announced a full-scale investigation and promised to give 10 million HUF to the ones who report the perpetrator. According to Zsolt Molnár, the chairman of the National Security Commission of the Hungarian Parliament, the attack unlikely has anything to do with the 2016 Terror Wave in Europe. The alleged perpetrator was caught on 19 October 2016 by the Counter Terrorism Centre in Keszthely. The 23 years old man is a Hungarian citizen without any kind of criminal antecedents; his father was earlier the mayor of Karmacs, a small village in Zala county.