Hungary Warns of Terror Threat on Budapest-Bamako Race
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Hungary’s anti-terror agency urged organizers to cancel the annual Budapest-Bamako car rally even after the Mali capital was abandoned as the race’s destination, citing fighting in the region and the threat of kidnappings.
Organizers changed the rally’s finish line to Bissau, the capital of Guinea-Bissau. Still, participants risk being "kidnapped or may have to pay with their lives for their irresponsible decision" to join the race, the Anti-Terrorism Center in Budapest said in a statement, MTI state news service reported today.