Man killed in moped crash

POLICE were searching for a teenage Briton yesterday after the death of a Sri Lankan man in a traffic accident on Friday night.Police said Don Tilanka Rajapaska Mohottige, 25, died of his injuries at about 5.30am in Nicosia General Hospital yesterday after suffering severe head injuries.The accident occurred just before midnight in the Limassol village of Erimi when Mohottige’s moped collided with another driven by two British youths.Police say they wanted to question the 16-year-old son of a British Bases serviceman stationed on the island. The two youths were believed to have escaped unharmed.Mohottige was taken to Limassol general hospital and then transferred to Nicosia. He had been working as a farmhand at Kolossi.

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