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Bomb experts not finished in Denia
AUTHORITIES were yesterday searching for what is believed to be the remains of a mortar explosive - cemented within a house’s innards since 1974 - near the spot where a 38-year-old bomb was defused on Monday.Explosives’ experts and the police had cordoned off a street in Denia village when the owner of an empty house told the police on Monday that he remembered covering a mortar projectile under cement in the year of 1974, community leader Christakis Panayiotou said. Yesterday, the floor was gutted and walls were torn down as bomb experts scanned the building on the strength of first indications suggesting there might have been something within the house’s foundations... 1 comment
Identification of Missing remains stalls over genetic test dispute
A DISAGREEMENT between the Committee on Missing Persons (CMP) and the Cyprus Institute of Neurology and Genetics (CING) may lead to the remains of missing persons being sent abroad for identification.According to presidential commissioner George Iacovou, who has been acting as mediator for some time, the dispute centres on who has control of the results of the genetic profiles of the relatives of the missing which are used to identify the remains so that they can be handed over to their families for burial.“The CMP decided that they wanted a new contract with CING that would allow them to have a copy of the genetic profiles but the institute objected to this,” said Iacovou... 3 comments
