accident

31/01/2017

Weather service issues highest sleet alert for Budapest, several counties – PHOTOS

Budapest, January 31 (MTI) – The national weather service issued the highest level of sleet alert for Budapest and several areas in southern, western, and central […]
31/01/2017

Bus crash tragedy in Italy – Bodies of bus crash victims expected to arrive Friday

Budapest (MTI) – The bodies of the 16 Hungarians who died in a bus crash in Italy earlier this month are expected to be transported to […]
29/01/2017

Fire kills 8,700 chickens in SE Hungary poultry town

Budapest, January 29 (MTI) – As many as 8,700 chickens were killed in a fire that engulfed a building at a poultry farm at Orosháza, in […]
25/01/2017

Bus crash tragedy in Italy – Pope Francis expresses condolences over Verona bus accident

Budapest, January 25 (MTI) – Pope Francis has expressed his condolences to everyone affected by a Hungarian bus accident near Verona last Friday, including the families […]
24/01/2017

Bus crash tragedy in Italy – Heroes of the accident

The tragic bus accident in Italy took away 16 people while 26 were left injured. Index.hu wrote about the heroes of the tragedy, without whom the outcome […]
24/01/2017

Bus crash tragedy in Italy – Foreign minister: Bus crash not caused by technical problem

Budapest, January 24 (MTI) – The recent bus crash near Verona in which 16 Hungarians died does not appear to have been caused by a technical […]
23/01/2017

Bus crash tragedy in Italy – Identification of the victims could take several days

Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó said at a press conference that “the identities of the 16 dead and two critically injured victims of […]
23/01/2017

Bus crash tragedy in Italy – Hungary observes day of mourning – Photos – UPDATE

Budapest, January 23 (MTI) – Hungary’s national flag was hoisted and lowered to half-mast on Monday morning, to pay tribute to the 16 Hungarians who died […]
22/01/2017

Bus crash tragedy in Italy – Italian Prime Minister Paolo Gentiloni and Russian President Putin expressed condolences to Hungary

According to Sputnik news agency, Kremlin press service said that Vladimir Putin expressed on Saturday his condolences to Prime Minister Viktor Orbán and Hungarian President János […]
22/01/2017

Bus crash tragedy in Italy – Survivors returning to Hungary

Budapest, January 22 (MTI) – All but two of the survivors of a bus crash that took the lives of 16 Hungarians in Italy could return […]
21/01/2017

Bus crash tragedy in Italy – Victims of bus crash commemorated in Budapest – PHOTOS

Hundreds of people gathered at the Szinyei Merse Pál Secondary School in Budapest on Saturday evening to commemorate the victims of the bus crash in Italy. […]
21/01/2017

Bus crash tragedy in Italy – Sixteen Hungarians were killed in Verona – UPDATE

Budapest, January 21 (MTI) – Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has declared Monday a national day of mourning for those Hungarians who died in a bus accident […]
07/01/2017

-25 Celsius in Hungary, a man frozen to death

Take care of ourselves and each other, because we are facing a beastly cold weather. Origo also reported the advices by National Directorate General for Disaster […]
24/12/2016

Explosion and burning ambulance car in Budapest

The engine compartment of the ambulance car got on fire, then the flames expanded to the whole vehicle. The fire was extinguished by two water-jets of the […]
17/12/2016

Gripen damaged in 2015 accident repaired

  Budapest (MTI) – A Gripen jet of the Hungarian air force, which was damaged in an accident last year, has now been repaired, the defence […]
13/12/2016

A race against time for the life of 300 children

The four response units of Hungarian Child Rescue Foundation receive three thousand calls a year. In every tenth case – may it be illness or an […]
10/12/2016

Hungary offers condolences on Bulgarian train catastrophe

  Budapest, December 10 (MTI) – Prime Minister Viktor Orbán expressed his condolences to his Bulgarian counterpart, Boyko Borissov, on Saturday’s train catastrophe in northeastern Bulgaria. […]
06/12/2016

Five seriously injured in Budapest metro accident

Budapest (MTI) – Five people suffered serious injuries when two trains on Budapest’s M2 metro line collided early on Monday, public television M1 reported. In the […]
05/12/2016

Breaking news – Ten injured in Budapest metro train collision – UPDATE

Budapest, December 5 (MTI) – Two metro trains collided on Budapest’s M2 line early on Monday, injuring ten people, Máté Kisdi, a spokesman for Budapest’s disaster […]
19/10/2016

Fenerbahce soccer team’s aircraft makes emergency landing in Budapest

Budapest, October 19 (MTI) – An aircraft carrying the Turkish soccer team Fenerbahce made an emergency landing in Budapest on Wednesday after cracks were noticed on […]