Roads claim two more lives

CYPRUS roads claimed two more lives over the weekend, after a man was killed in a new accident and a pensioner died of injuries received in a hit and run.

Diomidis Polycarpou, 48, died at around 10.45am on Saturday, after his car plunged down an 8.4 metre drop by the side of the Larnaca-Nicosia highway.

Cyta employee Polycarpou from Aglandja was killed instantly.

Meanwhile, on Sunday, Meropi Fouki, 86, died at Limassol General Hospital at 9am. She had been run over by a van on Limassol’s Petrakis Yiallous Street on January 17.

The driver failed to stop. Police are investigating.

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