Two held after girls ‘abandoned in drug haze’

TWO YOUTHS were remanded in custody yesterday on suspicion of abusing two under-age girls. The girls, 14 and 15, were reportedly “dumped” outside their Nicosia homes in a “drug-induced stupor” in the early hours of Thursday.

Police said the mothers of the two young girls had complained that their daughters had been beaten and had probably used drugs. The two girls were admitted to hospital and one bore scratches and bruises on the face, but there was no evidence to suggest they had used narcotics, police reported.

An 18-year-old man from Aglandjia was arrested in connection with the incident late on Thursday night. Another man, 20, from the same Nicosia suburb, was arrested in the early hours yesterday.

Both were brought up before Nicosia District court yesterday morning and remanded for six days.

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