Police are on Friday investigating a spate of closely-timed attacks on Limassol premises during the past week, including the latest: overnight shots fired at a coffee shop, and explosions of a car and at company offices.

According to the police, shots were fired around 1am at the front entrance of a coffee shop in Zakaki, on Franklin Roosevelt Avenue. The venue was raided by the drug squad (Ykan) last Sunday, and police seized drugs, bullets and a sum of over €120,000.

Following a tipoff, police had searched a number of other buildings in west Limassol, vehicles, and a boat.

Three people are currently still held in custody for that case, and an arrest warrant had been issued for the 46-year-old owner of a pub, who is wanted.

The scene at the coffee shop remained cordoned off on Friday and the road closed for onsite investigations. Bullet casings were collected, which appear to have been fired from an automatic weapon, CyBC reported.

The shots damaged the glass front of the venue and lodged in objects inside the building, as well as in the next door premises.

Police have secured CCTV footage from the offices and surrounding premises.

The incident is being interpreted as a possible case of revenge between criminals involved in the drug-related crimes.

Later at night, after the gun attack, a car belonging to a 26-year-old taxi driver was bombed outside its owner’s residence and a bomb exploded outside company offices.

Police reported that the car explosion happened around 3.50am and had been perpetrated by means of an improvised device. The car’s owner was a known friend of the owner of a pub bombed on Thursday.

The explosion at the company offices happened simultaneously, police said, and was caused by an explosive device placed inside a water pipe. Extensive damage was caused to the premises’ glass front.

That follows a similar attack on Tuesday when a bomb went off at the entrance of a 70-year-old doctor’s house in the Havouza area. Police investigations confirmed the explosion resulted from a low-power improvised explosive device placed on the stairway of an outside wall.

The blast damaged a glass balcony door and caused minor interior damage as well as damages to two parked vehicles.

The first incident occurred on Monday, around 3am at a car repair shop, owned by a 43-year-old man. Perpetrators placed a low-power explosive device at its entrance, damaging the metal door and a parked vehicle.

Investigations are ongoing.