Four die in separate accidents

FOUR people — two soldiers and two women — died in separate incidents around the island yesterday.

Greek soldier Georgios Papalexopoulos, 19, died in mysterious circumstances. His unit said that Papalexopoulos had not been feeling well during morning exercises. He was treated at his unit, and then rushed to the Nicosia general hospital at 11.30. He died at 2pm.

Another soldier, National Guard Sergeant Marios Christoforou, 23, was killed when his car hit the barrier on the Limassol-Paphos highway at around 6am. Police are investigating the cause of the accident.

Meanwhile two women drowned in Paphos in two separate accidents. The fist took place at around 7.45am, when 25-year-old Juliana Sakirova, while cleaning the area around a hotel swimming pool, apparently lost her balance and fell into the 2.95 metre-deep water. She was pulled out by tourists and taken to the Paphos general hospital where doctors pronounced her dead on arrival.

At around 8.30am, a 22-year-old woman drowned while she was swimming at a beach close to the Venus Hotel on the Tombs of the Kings road. She was pronounced dead by a doctor who was called to the scene by the people who found her.

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