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Orban claims bomb plot targeted gas pipeline as election nears

Orban claims bomb plot targeted gas pipeline as election nears

Viktor Orbán has claimed that explosives were found near a gas pipeline serving his country as his reelection campaign in Hungary enters its final week. Peter Szijjártó, his foreign minister, went further to insist “someone tried to blow up the TurkStream pipeline” after two backpacks “full of explosives” were found in northern Serbia.

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Orban claims bomb plot targeted gas pipeline as election nears