TWO people were killed and a further three were seriously injured in a series of road accidents over the weekend.
Twenty-seven-year-old Yiannis Yiakoumos from Limassol died on Sunday night after sustaining injuries in an accident that took place in the early hours of the same day.
At around 4.35am at the junction of Gladstone and Saktouri Streets, the driver of the vehicle in which Yiakoumos was a passenger lost control of his vehicle, which swerved off course and collided into a raised pavement, before crashing into a shop window and finally flipping back over onto the road.
All three men in the car were rushed to Limassol hospital. Yiakoumos died on Sunday night, while the driver of the car Andreas Kyriacou, 27, was still in critical condition and the second passenger Nicos Tandis, also 27, suffered fractures to his left arm and shoulder blade. Police said none of the men had been wearing seatbelts.
Meanwhile, a second accident on Sunday night left a 16-year-old youth dead and a 14-year-old seriously injured.
Christos Avraam Stavrou and Marios Martis, both from Liopetri in the Famagusta district, were driving a motorbike on the Liopetri-Frenaros road when they collided into an oncoming car driven by a 25-year-old.
Both youths were rushed to Larnaca General Hospital, where Stavrou was pronounced dead and Martis was kept in suffering internal bleeding.
Police said neither boy had been wearing a helmet. It is not clear which of the two was driving the motorbike.
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