A POWERFUL car bomb exploded in Makedonitissa on Monday night, destroying a BMW worth an estimated £35,000.
According to police reports yesterday the device went off at 8.15pm in the parking lot of a block of flats on Elia Papakyriakou street.
The car belonged to 38 year-old Andreas Symeou from Makedonitissa.
Preliminary examinations at the scene by police have shown the homemade bomb used contained highly explosive materials.
The cost of damage to the vehicle is estimated at around £15.000.
Two bombs also exploded in the early hours of Tuesday in Limassol.
The first explosion occurred at 1.50am after an incendiary device went off under the car of 38 year-old Nicos Constantinou.
Constantinou’s Mazda was parked outside his house on Arcadia street when the homemade device went off, causing widespread damage to the car. A vehicle parked nearby belonging to Maria Irakleous was also damaged.
A second explosion occurred in Limassol at 4.45am yesterday.
This latest blast was caused by a hand grenade that exploded on the road outside a block of flats on Limassol’s Omonia avenue.
The scale of the damage was considerable with the blast shattering the shop windows of a pharmacy, a kiosk and a shop selling car spare parts. Six vehicles parked on the pavement near to the scene of the explosion were also damaged.
Possible motives behind all three of the bomb explosions have yet to be ascertained by police.
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