No foul play in burnt body case

POLICE HAVE ruled out foul play after the death of a man who died in a fire in his apartment on Severis Avenue in Nicosia on Thursday evening.

Police officials believe that the fire may have started by a burning cigarette that fell out of the ashtray. State Coroner Sofoclis Sofocleous yesterday said that the cause of death was severe burning, adding that tests would need to be made on the liquids of the man’s stomach and his blood to determine if he had been unconscious at the time.

Legal sources yesterday told the Cyprus Mail that the man was Ukrainian national Gennadiy Ivanov.

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.