Orbán suggests fire at Hungary's main oil refinery may have been caused by "external attack"

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has said that an investigation into a fire that broke out last week at a MOL oil refinery in Százhalombatta is ongoing, and he has not ruled out that it may have been caused by an "external attack".

"The investigation is well underway. We don't know yet whether it was an accident, a malfunction, or an external attack," Orbán wrote on Facebook.

The Hungarian prime minister also referred to an earlier remark by Polish Foreign Minister Radosław Sikorski, who Orbán said had "advised the Ukrainians to blow up the Druzhba oil pipeline".

"Let's hope that is not the case," he added.

On the night of 20-21 October, a fire broke out at Hungary's main oil refinery. Firefighters managed to contain it by midday.

The refinery in Százhalombatta is Hungary's only major oil processing plant and mostly refines Russian crude.