Police injured during arrest

LARNACA District Court remanded a 28-year-old Romanian man for four days yesterday in connection with injuring a police officer.

Shortly after midnight on Thursday, police received a report that there was an injured man outside a hotel in town.

An officer from Larnaca CID who was on patrol in the area found the injured man, who then pointed out the person who had injured him. The officer approached the alleged assailant but according to reports he reacted, pushing the officer before getting away.

Officers chased the man and tried to arrest him, police said. They said he resisted arrest and injured one of the officers before police managed to restrain him.

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