Yugoslavs hurt as lift plunges four floors

FOUR men were injured yesterday when the cables of the lift they were in snapped, bringing them hurtling to the ground from the fourth floor of a Limassol block of flats.

Police said they were investigating the circumstances of the accident in the Fortuna apartment block in the Enaerio area of the town.

The four men in the lift at the time were Yugoslavs and had to be rescued from the lift cage by firemen, police said.

Three of them were given first aid at Limassol hospital and then released, while the fourth suffered multiple fractures and had to be kept in for observation.

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