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Security has been
tightened for senior officials entitled to "top protection", the
Counter Terrorism Centre said in a statement.
The center's director general, Janos Hajdu, said the suspects
had been detained last week as police stepped up investigations
that touched on the security of these officials, whom he
declined to name.
After the suspects in the car were detained, a subsequent house
search revealed a bomb-making laboratory with "explosives and
devices that were suitable for killing people to the utmost
extent", Hajdu told the state television channel M1.
He said police had also caught two other people with submachine
guns, ammunition and silencers in their car, and that it was not
clear whether the two groups were connected.
Asked whether the suspects had jihadist links, he said: "Let me
reply to that in the next few days."
Hajdu declined to disclose the suspects' identities,
nationalities or presumed motives, but added that the case had
an international dimension.
Much of western Europe has been on high alert since Islamist
militants killed 130 people in coordinated attacks in Paris on
Nov. 13 that were claimed by Islamic State, and the Belgian
capital Brussels has been in lockdown for several days because
of fears that another attack is imminent.
Counter Terrorism Centre officials were not immediately
available for further comment.
M1 said two of the suspects had been formally placed under
arrest, and a court would decide on the others on Wednesday.
(Reporting by Sandor Peto; Editing by Kevin Liffey)
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