Girl stabbed after phone box row

A LARNACA schoolgirl was last night said to be out of danger after being stabbed during an argument over a phone box.

The incident happened at around 3.50pm, in Larnaca’s John Kennedy Square, when Nicoletta Georgiou, 15, and friends were using the phone box.

An argument apparently broke out between Georgiou and a man waiting to use the phone box; the argument became heated, and ended with the man stabbing Georgiou with a knife.

The girl was rushed to hospital, where doctors ascertained that, although she had a one-inch wound in her right side, there were no internal injuries, and she was not in any danger.

Fifteen minutes after the incident, police arrested Gavriel Gavriel, 36, from Vryssoules, outside the Larnaca Central Police Station. A knife was found in his possession and Gavriel had bloodstains on his shirt cuff.

Eyewitnesses were also called to the station to give statements. The investigation is continuing.

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