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The blast in the early hours of Monday at a Larnaca seaside hotel, which has been closed for renovation work since December last year, was caused by a home-made explosive device, police said. The home-made explosive device went off at Read More …
An explosion occurred outside a motorcycle shop in the Nicosia suburb of Engomi in the early hours of Friday morning. The explosion took place between 2.30am and 3am and damaged the shop’s entrance. Read more… Source: Cyprus Mail
A bomb exploded in the Pernera area of Paralimni in the early hours of Friday morning. The bomb had been placed outside a nightclub at around 2am. The resulting explosion took place next to a garage door on one side Read More …
The police have launched an investigation after an explosion occurred in the early hours of the morning in the Nicosia suburb of Strovolos on Wednesday. The explosion happened at around 4.40am in a parking space outside a residential property. Police Read More …
The foreign ministry has not allayed concerns that Cyprus is at risk for a terror attack over the use of the British Bases, Diko MP Christos Orphanides charged on Monday. Orphanides had written to permanent secretary of the foreign ministry Read More …
A homemade explosive device detonated at around 3:15am in the Ayia Phyla neighbourhood of Limassol. The explosion occurred at the entrance of a house owned by a 67-year-old woman and damaged her front door. The police said an “improvised explosive Read More …
A car fire early on Tuesday morning in Limassol was caused by a low power improvised explosive device police confirmed, a while the vehicle’s owner has not suggested any suspected perpetrators. The explosion took place around 4.50am, police said, in Read More …
Police in Limassol have taken into custody two brothers after finding firecrackers and improvised explosive devices in a house in Ypsonas. The two, aged 24 and 29, were arrested late on Monday afternoon after police conducted a search of their Read More …
The offices of migrant support group Kisa were destroyed on Friday after an explosive device shattered the glass, destroyed equipment, and all of its records. The group said it had received threats by groups driven by “racist and nationalist motives” Read More …
A car was targeted by an improvised explosive device in the early hours of the morning on Christmas day. The car, belonging to a 52-year-old accountant in Limassol, was parked outside the owner’s residence in the Mesa Geitonia area. The Read More …
Despite intense investigations for the second consecutive day in connection with the placement of an explosive device at the residence of a 58-year-old official from the Legal Service in Paphos, substantive progress in the investigations remains elusive. Simultaneously, evidence and Read More …
Police in Paphos have taken a 20-year-old into custody on Sunday to facilitate investigations into a case involving the possession of explosive materials and violence at a sports venue. According to a statement released on Monday, during Sunday’s football match Read More …
An explosion occurred outside a shop in the Makedonitissa area of Nicosia in the early hours of Friday morning. Police said the explosion occurred at around 2:30am and caused damage to the shop front as well as causing a fire Read More …
Police in Cyprus have arrested one person after a bomb was detonated on Saturday near the Israeli embassy in Nicosia. Officials said the explosion occurred at 1:37 am. Cyprus police report finding shrapnel as close as 30 meters from the Read More …
Referees in Cyprus have gone on indefinite strike after an apparent arson attack on a car belonging to an official’s mother, the latest incident in a campaign of terror that has run for nearly a decade. Reports in Cyprus said Read More …
A 63-year-old man in Limassol found an improvised explosive device (IED) outside his home police reported on Wednesday. According to police statement, the man who found the IED in his home in the village of Pyrgos, reported the matter to Read More …
An attack on a mosque in Limassol occurred at midnight on Friday, with police mobilized. The incident reportedly happened around 1:10 p.m., when a person threw two Molotov cocktails towards the mosque and immediately fled. There were no injuries from Read More …
The Sovereign Base Areas Police on Thursday carried out searches on a number of neighbouring properties in Trachoni and discovered a significant amount of drugs, believed to be cannabis. Six Greek Cypriots have been arrested, five men and one woman, a Read More …
Irish troops have started training Ukrainian forces in bomb disposal and demining techniques in Cyprus, Ireland’s Defence chief-of-staff said on Tuesday. According to the Irish Times, Ireland has pledged the deployment of up to 30 skilled personnel, specialising in areas Read More …
Police in Limassol were called to the scene of a car bomb that exploded in Limassol in the early hours of Tuesday. According to a statement by Limassol CID, an improvised explosive device caused the explosion shortly before 3 am Read More …