Skeleton found at Lara Bay

By a Staff Reporter

A HUMAN skeleton was found buried in the sand at Lara Bay in Paphos yesterday, police said. At around 1.30pm a passer-by found the remains buried in sand 25 metres inland.

Paphos CID, Peyia police station officers and state coroner Sophoclis Sophocleous were called to the scene. Sophocleous said the skeleton was more than 30 years old, although he was unable to determine the sex of the remains, police said. No other evidence was found at the scene. The bones were sent to the Institute of Genetics for forensic examination.

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