Attempted murder

LIMASSOL police were investigating an attempted murder on Monday after a 31-year-old man was taken to Limassol general hospital suffering from a ruptured kidney and wounds to his back, shoulder and nose.

He was operated on and held in the intensive care unit of the hospital.

According to reports, while the 31-year-old was walking along the pavement in the Yermasogia area on Sunday he was attacked by three men in a car who stabbed him and left, police said. The victim told police that he was taken to Limassol polyclinic by an unknown person and then he was later taken by ambulance to Limassol general hospital.

He is in a critical but stable condition according to doctors.

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