Budapest victims may have been buried alive

HUNGARIAN police have launched a criminal investigation after unearthing four bodies on an island in Budapest, a police spokesman said, and a newspaper reported that the victims may have been buried alive.

The National Bureau of Investigation said in a statement that medical experts would establish the causes and circumstances of the deaths.

“The criminal scene investigation has finished,” police spokesman Laszlo Bartha said, declining to comment on media reports that more bodies could be found.