A thin man wearing black clothes and spectacles used a firearm to rob a pharmacy on Baross utca in the Eighth District around 7 p.m. Half an hour later a man attacked a pharmacy on Ferenc körút in the Ninth District but left without any cash. An unidentified man robbed a pharmacy on Szent István körút in the Fifth District 25 minutes later.

No one was injured."

Source: Hungary Around the Clock.

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