#attacks

At least two people were killed when an assailant drove a car into pedestrians and stabbed a security guard near a synagogue in England where worshippers were marking Yom Kippur, ...

A group of people reportedly forced entry into a residence occupied by their compatriots, carrying bats and large knives in Strovolos overnight, police said on Wednesday. Inside the home, the ...

Every year, over 250 attacks on police officers are recorded, many of which reach the courts, official data published on Wednesday showed, with six cases reported in just five days in ...

A 79-year-old man was remanded by Limassol district court on Tuesday after a 57-year-old man reported he had been beaten up by an unknown person while he was in his ...

A 37-year-old man and a 39-year-old woman were arrested in Limassol after allegedly attacking a man and causing grievous bodily harm, the police said on Monday. The attack reportedly took ...

A 25-year-old foreign student and delivery driver was robbed by a group of men in Nicosia early on Wednesday, adding yet another case to the ongoing series of violent attacks ...

Civil servants’ trade union Pasydy on Tuesday expressed outrage at what it described as an “unprovoked incident of attack” against workers at the social services office in the Limassol suburb ...

Trade unions on Thursday called for better training of delivery drivers, following a meeting between union representatives, representatives of the employers’ and industrialists’ federation (OEV), and food delivery companies Bolt, ...

An 18-year-old man accused of attacking an elderly woman and her daughter in the village of Tremithousa was arrested on Tuesday. The incident happened at 4pm on Monday, when the ...

The police on Friday announced that they had made a fifth arrest in connection with an alleged attack on five members of a volleyball team from Paphos outside a nightclub. ...

Three people were arrested over an attack on a man who is being held in custody in the central prison, the police announced on Friday. The men are aged 34, 28, and 26 ...

Police arrested two individuals, aged 21 and 22, for incidents of violence that took place during the Limassol Carnival parade earlier this month. According to the police, three men, two aged 32, and ...

Eleven people were killed in a shooting at an adult education centre on Tuesday, Swedish police said, marking the country’s deadliest gun attack in what the prime minister called ...

Nurses union Pasyno on Monday added its voice to condemnations of an attack against medical staff at Polis Chrysochous hospital over the weekend, calling on the state to protect health ...

A 21-year-old Syrian arrested in connection with a series of attacks on Nicosia’s Bayraktar mosque has been remanded in custody for eight days. Media in the north reported that ...

The police on Tuesday clarified the circumstances surrounding attacks on Nicosia’s Bayraktar mosque following media reports. Turkey’s Anadolu Agency had reported earlier in the day that two attackers ...

Police are investigating an attack against a customer by a food courier and other people in Paphos. According to the police, a resident of Mouttalos community reported that he had ...

A 24-year-old man was robbed on Monday night in Limassol, with the perpetrators stealing his motorcycle. According to a complaint filed by the victim, an Indian student residing in Cyprus, ...

For months, some of the most lowly paid members of society have been forced to make a difficult choice: go out to work for peanuts and risk getting beaten up; ...

The Limassol district court on Friday issued a six-day detention order for two men, aged 20 and 25, who were arrested as suspects in connection with recent assaults on food delivery drivers ...

Justice Minister Marios Hartsiotis on Monday said he was seriously concerned over the spate of attacks against delivery drivers, and would have a high-level meeting during the week to discuss ...

Police Chief Themistos Arnaoutis met with his department heads on Friday to address the recent attacks on migrant delivery drivers, emphasising the need for sensitivity in handling these cases. The ...

A female prisoner who kicked a police officer in the course of her transfer from Nicosia to Paphos, is to appear before the Paphos district court on Monday. The woman, ...

The Cyprus Medical Association on Sunday called for an “urgent review” of safety measures at accident and emergency departments in Cyprus’ hospitals after a patient attacked staff at the Nicosia ...