One dead, 50 wounded: the hunting season has begun

THE HUNTING season opened on Sunday with one death from a heart attack plus 50 injuries, including a boy aged 12.

Policeman Andreas Economides, 44, from Nicosia died of a heart attack while hunting in the area of Platanistasa.

The catalogue of 50 light injuries throughout the day included 12-year-old Marios Georgiou who was hit by pellets at Mesoghi while out hunting with his father.

In all, 55,000 hunters took to the woods, shooting down around 100,000 partridges and 12,000 hares.