Egyptians who paid $1,000 for new life in Italy dumped in Famagusta

THIRTEEN Egyptians suspected of landing at occupied Famagusta port were brought over from the north and deported yesterday, police said.

The 13 men were reportedly arrested by Turkish Cypriot ‘police’ yesterday and later handed to officials from the Egyptian embassy. They were brought over through the Ledra Palace check-point in diplomatic vehicles at around 2.10pm and later put on a flight to Egypt, police said.

The Egyptians apparently claimed they had paid a fishing-boat captain $1, 000 each to ferry them from Lebanon to Italy, but the boat dumped them at the abandoned port of Famagusta instead

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