>"The body of a 21-year-old man was found in a flat in Kőbánya, Budapest’s 10th District, late Tuesday night, making him the sixth person to die

"The body of a 21-year-old man was found in a flat in Kőbánya, Budapest’s 10th District, late Tuesday night, making him the sixth person to die from a heroin overdose in the capital since last weekend.Budapest Police anti-drugs division head Maj. Norber Ródler told reporters on Wednesday that it is not yet known whether there is a connection between the recent death and the drugs sold by the two dealers who were captured on Monday. The heroin that has resulted in the deaths of six people in recent days was pure, Ródler noted.Police arrested one Hungarian and one Vietnamese heroin dealer on Monday
National Bureau of Investigation (NNI) anti-drug department head Attila Madarász told Magyar Hírlap that “disco drugs” top the drug popularity list in Hungary: speed and ecstasy, followed by marijuana, cocaine and heroin.
Finance and Excise Guards spokesman Jenő Sípos told the daily that 73kgs of drugs have been impounded so far this year, most of them arriving from countries south and south-east of Hungary, although marijuana has mainly been brought in from the Netherlands since the opening of Schengen borders. Drug smugglers captured have included Hungarians, Albanians, Macedonians, Romanians and Turks.
Meanwhile NNI detectives seized 50,000 ecstasy tablets in a lorry in Biatorbágy, west of Budapest, at the weekend. The NNI promised to release information about the operation at a later date. The Independent News Agency said the shipment was a record haul worth Ft 80 million."

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