Villager stabs himself in cabaret frolic

A PAPHOS area villager was yesterday recovering in hospital from knife wounds he apparently inflicted on himself in an effort to impress a Romanian cabaret artiste.

Forty-three-year-old Polycarpos Georgiou, from Timi, was seriously injured in an incident at the Royal Taverna in Polis, at about 5am on Sunday, police reported.

Police are looking into all possibilities, but initial investigations suggest Georgiou stabbed himself in the stomach while fooling around with his Romanian cabaret dancer companion.

Georgiou was rushed to Polis hospital and then on to the Paphos hospital, where he underwent emergency surgery.

His condition was yesterday described as serious but not life-threatening.

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