Three killed on Easter roads

By a Staff Reporter

A 20-YEAR-OLD Ukrainian woman was killed in Paphos yesterday after the car she was travelling in collided head on with another vehicle.

Two more people, a Greek national living in Paphos and an Irish tourist, were killed in road accidents over the holiday weekend.

Yesterday’s accident happened at 2.10am on the Coral Bay road when under unknown circumstances the vehicle the Ukrainian was travelling in, along with a 25-year-old Syrian man collided head on with a car driven by a local man.

The Syrian man, who was driving, was seriously injured while the 20-year- old was trapped in the wreck. She was freed by the fire service and rushed to Paphos hospital where she was pronounced dead on arrival.

Greek national Constantinos Skalides, 46, was killed six hours earlier after his motorcycle crashed into a car on the Ayia Marina to Polis Chrysohous road.

Police said the collision threw the man around 15 metres from the scene.

He was rushed to hospital where doctors pronounced him dead.

But perhaps the most horrific accident was recorded shortly before five early on Sunday morning when an Irish tourist burned to death in his car following his crash into a traffic sign.

The accident happened on the Ayia Napa to Paralimni road when the man apparently entered the wrong lane and drove into a traffic sign.

He was trapped inside his car, which burst into flames.

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