Man Attacking Police Shot In Budapest Suburb Just Before Xmas Eve

  • 28 Dec 2020 8:06 AM
  • Hungary Matters
Man Attacking Police Shot In Budapest Suburb Just Before Xmas Eve
A police officer shot a man who had stabbed his patrol partner in northern Budapest’s 4th district, police.hu reported.

The two officers, a man and a woman, had been alerted to a condominium in the morning hours on 24 December with a man behaving aggressively in the stairway.

When they arrived the noisy and aggressive man attacked the male officer and stabbed him with a knife several times.

The attacker died, while the injured officer was rushed to hospital in a critical condition.


MTI Photo: Zoltán Mihadák

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