A 70-year-old woman from Sotira in the Famagusta district was robbed of €700 in cash and about €800 worth of jewellery by a conman pretending to work at the local hospital.
Police said that the man, believed to be in his thirties, visited the old woman at her home on Tuesday morning saying that the her son was hurt in an accident and urgently needed to have a surgery to implant plates in his leg. According to the police, the conman convinced the old woman to hand over cash and her gold jewellery to be melted down and used for the implants.
The young man has since disappeared and the police do not know if he was a Cypriot or a foreigner.
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