LIMASSOL district court issued an eight-day remand yesterday for a 34-year-old man suspected of killing a man and injuring four others after two separate shooting incidents in Larnaca’s Kofinou on Saturday.
Police are guarding the suspect in Limassol hospital after he crashed his car on Saturday afternoon after the shootings in the Aradippou-Avdellerou road where he was arrested in connection with the shootings.
The 34-year-old is suspected of attacking and killing a 54-year-old man and injuring his 27-year-old son, Giorgos, on Saturday morning at a Turkish Cypriot house in Kofinou that the father and son were working on at the time of the attack.
The shootings – with a Kalashnikov assault rifle – were reportedly over a dispute over the property that the 34-year-old had been lobbying the guardian of Turkish Cypriot properties to hand over to him but was given to Giorgos instead. Turkish Cypriot properties in government-controlled areas fall under the jurisdiction of this organisation that is part of the interior ministry.
After the first shootings, the 34-year-old then allegedly went over to a supermarket belonging to family who were given a piece of government land that he was also reportedly claiming. There, he shot two of the owners, two men aged 47 and 36, as well as at a 36-year-old woman who was shopping at the time. Another one of the owners, a 56-year-old man, managed to get the gun off of him and the 34-year-old allegedly left in a car.
The three people shot at the supermarket are very seriously injured, police spokesman Andreas Angelides said yesterday.
A plea for the rare type O negative blood has been going round on the internet and via mobile text messages for the 36-year-old mother of two, Katy Charalambous. She is in Nicosia general hospital.
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