Workshop targeted in arson attack

POLICE were yesterday searching for a suspected arsonist after workshop machinery worth £4,000 was destroyed by fire in an overnight attack.

The damage to an aluminium workshop in Tersefanou village, in the Larnaca district, was not discovered till 9am yesterday, when owner Charalambos Kaniklis went to work.

Police forensics experts later said the fire had been started deliberately at around 1am, and had burned itself out by the time Kaniklis went to work.

Kaniklis told police he suspected no one, but police later issued an arrest warrant for an unnamed suspect.

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