Police investigate Nagycsécs Roma slayings

Leaders of the Roma community are holding consultations with the police about a suspected racially motivated attack in a village in north-east Hungary in which two people died from gunshot wounds on Monday.

A man, 43, and a woman, 40, died on the spot after petrol bombs were thrown into two houses opposite one another in Nagycsecse village in the early hours, Borsod-Abauj-Zemplen county police spokesman Tamas Dobi told MTI.

The houses were also sprayed with bullets.

Police cordoned off the area on village's outskirts, an MTI correspondent reported.

A witness, Tibor Nagy, who also was injured in the incident, told MTI his wife and older brother had died of the shooting, thought to have been carried out with a shotgun.

A neighbour in one of the houses, whose partner took the victims' bodies out of their flat, told MTI that the man and the woman were believed to have been shot in their heads from behind.

Roma representatives of the local governments in the neighbourhood have gathered at the scene in Nagycsecse, which has no Roma local government, but many Roma among its 1,000 inhabitants. The Roma leaders unanimously suspect radical right groups being behind the act.

The Borsod-Abauj-Zemplen police have offered 1 million forints (3,900 euros) to anyone who comes forward with information about the attack.

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