Teenagers die after road accidents

A 14-year-old boy died yesterday after being knocked off his bicycle on the Avgorou-Liopetri road.

At around 11.15am, Yiorgos Miltiades Diklis was cycling with two friends, Marinos Triarchou and Nicolas Kolokasides, both also 14, towards their home village of Liopetri when he was hit by a Mitsubishi Pajero jeep driven by Andreas Mitsides, 52.

Diklis’ two friends ran to alert authorities, but Diklis was dead by the time the ambulance arrived. He was taken first to a clinic in Paralimni and then on to Paralimni General Hospital, where he was pronounced dead.

Meanwhile a 15-year-old Limassol girl, Maria Pavlidou, died in Nicosia General Hospital late on Sunday night of injuries sustained in a road accident on Makarios Avenue in Limassol last Thursday.

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