Swordsman kills 4 in village near Budapest

Hungarian anti-terror police have rushed to a village near Budapest after a man killed four people with a sword, emergency services have told reporters. The killer wounded three others and may have taken hostages after the attack on Friday morning. The drama was unfolding in the village of Kulcs, about 60km (37 miles) south of the capital, MTI news agency said. Police told Reuters news agency they had identified the killer and were preparing to publish his photo. Anti-terror police, a rescue helicopter and three ambulances were dispatched to the village in Fejer county. "We are after the perpetrator of a very serious, multiple homicide," Fejer police spokeswoman Agnes Szabo told Reuters. According to one TV station, HirTV, the killings took place in a family home where seven people lived. The motive and circumstances were unclear, the channel said. From: BBC.