Briefs

Kurd dies after month long coma

A 40-year-old Kurd who had been in a coma for more than a month following a street fight in Limassol died yesterday, police said.

The fight broke out during a card game with compatriots at a local coffee shop on December 13 last year.

The man slapped one of them in the face after they argued and was thrown out of the establishment.

A few minutes later he was found with heavy head trauma.
He was rushed to hospital but never regained consciousness.

Remand for same-sex assault

A 55-year-old Larnaca man was yesterday remanded in custody for six days in connection with a series of serious offences including abducting and sexually assaulting a 44-year-old man.

The alleged victim told police that the suspect, along with an accomplice, had abducted him from his shop last Tuesday.

Police said the accomplice entered the shop and sprayed pepper-spray in the man’s eyes before forcing him into a car driven by the suspect.

The men allegedly led him to a field near the village of Psevdas and forced him inside an empty cargo container where they put him through “torture”.

Police said the suspects slashed the man’s legs with a Stanley knife and then stripped him naked and made him run around the fields.

They then brought him back to the container where they allegedly assaulted him sexually.

Bomb blast in Aglanjia
NICOSIA police were yesterday investigating an early morning bomb blast at the entrance of a home in Aglanjia.

Police said the 4.50am explosion caused extensive damage to the entrance.
CID and bomb-squad officers combed the scene for clues.

The blast had been caused by a high-intensity homemade device, police said.

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