By early Tuesday morning, 22 people were reported dead in the blast at the Manchester Arena and 59 were reported injured in what British police suspect was a suicide bombing.

Szijjártó said Europe’s top priority now was to establish security, adding that “all measures should serve this purpose”.

He said Europe had taken a “huge security risk” by having let in around 1.5 million people “with unidentified backgrounds and unclear motives” over the past two years.

“Looking at the number of terrorist attacks that have been carried out since 2015, it is not unfair to say that one of the consequences of illegal migration has been an unprecedented rise in the threat of terrorism,” Szijjártó added.

The minister said the Hungarian authorities had contacted local British police who said that the identification of the victims was still ongoing. They said they had no information as yet whether there had been any Hungarians among them, he said.

Republished with permission of Hungary Matters, MTI’s daily newsletter.

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