Fighting in occupied village

By a Staff Reporter

A GREEK CYPRIOT man narrowly escaped a lynching in the north on Sunday during a visit to his village, when Turkish Cypriots accused him of killing one of his fellow villagers in 1974.

According to a police bulletin the man visited his old village Ayia Irini in Kyrenia together with 25 other members of his family on Sunday.

He claimed that while he was standing in the village square around 15 Turkish Cypriots who had recognised him closed in, hurling abuse and accused him of having killed one of his fellow villagers in 1974.

Other Turkish Cypriots rushed to protect the man and a fight broke out between the villagers. Together with his family the man fled the village with the help of the Turkish Cypriots and reported the incident to the police in the Republic.

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