Two dead after combine harvester overturns

Two men from Inia and Stroumbi were crushed to death after a combine harvester overturned, police said on Monday.  

The two victims are 53-year-old farmer Nicos Demosthenous, an Inia resident, and 62-year-old Panicos Ioannides, from Stroumbi.  

According to the report, Demosthenous was driving the vehicle towards the main road after harvesting a field that belonged to Ioannides.  

It is thought that he was attempting to enter the Stroumbi-Kathikas road when he lost control of the harvester in an uphill part of the road, which then upturned, crushing him and Ioannides.  

It is still unknown whether Ioannides was on the vehicle or on the road, as his body was found outside the harvester while Demosthenous was trapped inside and had to be cut free by firefighters.