A man in Kolossi who attacked two third country nationals in Limassol overnight, one of them a delivery driver, is being sought, according to police spokeswoman Kyriaki Lambrianidou on Monday.

Speaking on CyBC’s morning radio, Lambrianidou confirmed the attacks had both been perpetrated by the same individual.

According to a report in Phileleftheros, the victims were two 22-year-old Indian nationals in Kolossi, who were attacked shortly after 10pm. The first was an Indian national who was assaulted and hit in the face by a man who had been riding a high-capacity motorbike. The victim sustained injuries to his lip and left eye.

Immediately afterwards the attacker targeted another 22-year-old foreigner, this time a delivery driver on his electric bicycle, who did not sustain injuries, according to the report.

Lambrianidou told the CyBC that most of the incidents of assaults on third-country nationals, specifically delivery drivers, were carried out by “youth”.

Twenty-seven arrests had been made in relation to 34 incidents reported, she said.

The success rate in solving these types of incidents is around 40 to 47 per cent, she added.

Lambrianidou interpreted the ongoing assaults as “copycat” behaviours, following on after publicisation of a previous incident.

The police press office confirmed to the Cyprus Mail that “most” of the incidents were carried out by “young men or minors under the ages of 18”, despite TikTok footage which went viral last week, in which a 54-year-old Limassol resident was caught on film attacking a 19-year-old delivery driver, following an alleged collision between the teenage worker’s bicycle with the back of his car.