Armed robbers strike Budapest five times in five days

Two armed men, Miklós Sz. and László Papp, who had been on the run, are believed to have committed four robberies in Budapest from Thursday evening to early Friday.

The former was detained in the Eighth District Friday evening.

The robberies began at a bar on Wesselényi utca in the Seventh District Thursday evening at 9 p.m. As the armed duo demanded the day's takings Sz. shot a customer in the face, causing severe injuries.

Some 90 minutes later the two robbed guests of their mobile phones in a bar on Vezér út in the 14th District. They then attacked another bar on Csalogány utca in the Second District, then, between 5 and 6 a.m. Friday they took cash from a food store.

Sz. fired his gas pistol at a shopper who was entering the shop, lightly injuring him.

In an unrelated development, a man took a sack full of cash from the post office on Kada utca in the 10th District on Friday. Police caught the robber within an hour and found both the cash and a knife he used in the robbery.

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