Farmer dies after tractor accident

A 69-year-old Paphos villager airlifted to Nicosia by police helicopter on Thursday after being flung from his runaway tractor has died of his injuries.

Police said farmer Dimitris Nearchou, from Kelokedara village, died in Nicosia general hospital yesterday.

Nearchou was badly hurt when his tractor suddenly accelerated out of control down a steep lane in his village, crashing into a house and throwing him over a garden wall on to a concrete courtyard two metres below.

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