An object resembling a plastic bullet was found and seized by the Larnaca police on Monday in relation to an ongoing investigation involving an air rifle attack the previous day.

Four people aged 22, 24, 26 and 30 were arrested for drug use and possession, the illegal transportation of a firearm, and reckless behaviour on Sunday and were remanded for four days by Larnaca district court.

“[The arrest] followed a complaint from two citizens that on different occasions on August 17 while they were in open spaces in Larnaca they felt blows from an unknown object, one to the head and the other to the back (possibly from an air rifle),” police said in a statement.

At around 7.30pm on Sunday, a tourist informed the police that while on a pedestrian crossing on Tasos Mitsopoulos Street in Larnaca, he was hit in the head by an unknown object.

There were no people at the scene, except for a passing vehicle, in which four people were travelling.

“A similar vehicle was seen on Piale Pasia street at around 7pm, with a person using an air rifle to shoot a passing tourist in the back,” police said.

The vehicle was located by the police in a supermarket parking lot in Meneou, with three people aged 22, 24 and 30 inside, however following a police search, nothing suspicious was found in the vehicle.

The three men were then taken to the Larnaca police station, where they named the fourth person – a 26-year-old man – who was called to the station.

Within the context of the investigations, an object resembling a plastic bullet was found at the location of one of the assaults and was taken as evidence.