Boy still missing in Limassol

By a Staff Reporter

LIMASSOL police yesterday appealed to the public’s help to locating a Russian boy who went missing on last Thursday.

Twelve-year-old Alexander Pougatchev was reported as missing by his parents on Saturday.

He was seen on Sunday outside a hotel in Limassol by some of his friends, but despite rushing to the scene CID investigators told the Cyprus Mail they were unable to locate him. Police said the twelve-year-old, who lives in Cyprus with his father and stepmother is thought to have had problems with his parents and left home on Thursday.

“The boy was seen on Sunday night outside a hotel by some of his friends,” CID spokesman said.

“We rushed to the scene but we were unable to find him. We have no reason to believe for the moment that he has been kidnapped.”

The Cyprus Mail is the only English-language daily newspaper published in Cyprus. It was established in 1945 and today, with its popular and widely-read website, the Cyprus Mail is among the most trusted news sites in Cyprus. The newspaper is not affiliated with any political parties and has always striven to maintain its independence. Over the past 70-plus years, the Cyprus Mail, with a small dedicated team, has covered momentous events in Cyprus’ modern history, chronicling the last gasps of British colonial rule, Cyprus’ truncated independence, the coup and Turkish invasion, and the decades of negotiations to stitch the divided island back together, plus a myriad of scandals, murders, and human interests stories that capture the island and its -people. Observers describe it as politically conservative.