All 15 suspects in connection with Hungary’s 2010 red sludge disaster were acquitted in a non-binding ruling, of carelessness and causing a public hazard, harming the environment and violating rules of waste management.

The Hungarian Ministry of Foreign Affaars and Trade has knowledge of 58 Hungarin citizens who were in the area when the earthquake hit Nepal on Saturday and still has not managed to make contact with 10 of them this Monday, the Minister said.

Some 370 hectares are flooded near the Hungarian-Slovenian border in SW Hungary due to heavy rains in the past week. Streams have exited their bed and flooded roads, lands and houses as a result of which dozens of people have had to be evacuated.

The Special Rapporteur of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Calin Georgescu, has been informed in Budapest about the details of the red sludge catastrophe of 2010, the rescue operations, the damage control and the legal modifications adopted.

Four people have been confirmed dead and three are missing as toxic red mud from a waste pond of an alumina plant flooded at least seven towns and villages in Western Hungary. Over a hundred people are in hospital.