Two people injured in separate muggings

A WOMAN was injured on Friday night after a motorist snatched her handbag as she walked along the street in Limassol.

According to police, the 35-year-old woman was walking along a busy road when a car approached her and the driver snatched her bag, which she was carrying on her shoulder.

In her attempt to fight him off, she lost her balance and fell to the ground, injuring her right arm and foot.

The driver, meanwhile, made off with her bag, containing €50, her mobile phone and personal documents. Limassol CID is investigating the case.

In another incident, a 52-year-old man told police he had been injured and robbed of €600, when a man attacked him at his home in Nicosia yesterday morning.

According to the 52-year-old, he had been sitting outside his home when a stranger approached him, attacked him and grabbed the money, as well as a mobile phone, from his shirt pocket. Nicosia CID is investigating the case.

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