A bank in Hungary has lost more than £20,000 after its armoured truck was rammed by a prison van full of bank robbers.

While firefighters rescued the inmates from the blazing van, bags of cash went missing as they spilled on to the Budapest street.

The prisoners - who were being transported from court to jail - were questioned about the money's disappearance, but all have protested their innocence.

A police spokesman commented: 'The bank remains very suspicious. Of all the vehicles that could have hit their van, it had to be one full of bank robbers.'