Fatal car accident in Paphos

A 26-year-old Romanian was killed and four other men were slightly injured in a car crash late yesterday afternoon on the Paphos-Limassol highway.

According to initial police reports, Stefan Bartaz was one of five labourers – two Romanians and three Georgians – travelling in a pick-up truck towards Paphos when it collided with another vehicle that was being loaded onto a tow-truck near the village of Ayia Marinouda.

The pick-up truck flipped over after the impact, skidding some 20 metres along the road surface before coming to a halt. Fire Brigade officers who were called to the scene cut the five men free from the wreckage.

Police spokesman Zinonas Psathitis told reporters that Bartaz was sitting in the rear passenger seat and did not appear to have been wearing a seat-belt.

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