A gunman kills a policeman and wounds two others with a knife in an attack in Hungary

Police cars block a road in front of the apartment building in Budapest where an officer was stabbed to death.

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A police statement in Hungary said, yesterday, that a man armed with a knife injured three police officers in the capital, Budapest, late Thursday, and that one of them died at a later time after being transferred to hospital.

Prosecutors said the incident had nothing to do with terrorism.

The statement stated that the police received a call late on Thursday, that a man had broken the door of a neighboring apartment in the 11th district of Budapest, and was trying to enter.

Officers who responded to the call attempted to arrest the man when he attacked them with a knife, stabbed three officers and fled into the street.

The city's police department said one of the officers fired a warning shot and then shot the fleeing man in the leg.

After that, the man was taken into custody, and he was taken to the hospital with the wounded officers.

One of the officers, who was in the 11th district police in Budapest, died of his injuries in hospital, according to a police statement.

"It was not an act of terrorism," Attorney General Pal Furcht told a news briefing, adding that an investigation had begun.

Prime Minister Viktor Orban told state radio yesterday that the government would help the family of the slain 29-year-old policeman.

Orban did not provide any other information about the suspect or the circumstances of the attack.

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