Two Germans abducted from Kyrenia office

UNKNOWN assailants kidnapped two Germans in Kyrenia, handcuffed them and later dumped them in a remote village, Reuters news agency reported last night.

Ernst Buecher and Walter Voss were taken from their estate agency offices in Kyrenia late on Wednesday, bundled into Voss’s car and driven away.

Buecher was found three hours later handcuffed in the boot of the car with his mouth covered with adhesive tape. Voss was found 100 metres from the car with his hands and feet in cuffs and mouth taped up.

Their passports, a mobile phone and around $375 had been taken from them. Voss was being treated in hospital yesterday for injuries to the head.

The Turkish Cypriots have detained three other Germans and a Croatian in whose house the stolen items were found. The abduction was believed to have been prompted by an argument over debt in Germany.

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