#arson

Cabinet on Monday submitted six amended bills to parliament on fire prevention for forests and the countryside, Agriculture Minister Maria Panayiotou said. Panayiotou said that some general elements included in ...

A 24-year-old has been arrested for a car arson that took place in March, police said on Saturday. According to a police statement, the case concerns the arson of a ...

Police arrested two minors during investigations in a car burglary and arson in Paphos, authorities said on Monday. The teen boys, 14 and 17, were arrested on Sunday evening, police said. Police ...

Three 17-year-olds have been arrested for the fire on Tuesday at the Oroklini facility for unaccompanied minors. Police said testimony had been obtained and they will be taken to Larnaca ...

The fires that broke out in Limassol’s Ayios Sylas and Ayios Therapondas on Friday were without a doubt an arson attack, fire services chief Nikos Longinos said on Saturday. ...

A 46-year-old man from Paphos was charged with having carried out an arson attack on a car on Thursday. The attack occurred on March 12 in the village of Ayia Varvara, ...

The fire in Limassol’s Turkish Cypriot quarters appears to have been set deliberately, it emerged on Thursday. The flames caused the old Apollon cinema’s roof to collapse, while ...

Police arrested a third man in connection with the torching of a police car in the early hours of Thursday morning. The man arrested is 22 years old and is also ...

Police on Tuesday rearrested a 46-year-old man following evidence related to twelve cases of arson targeting residences and vehicles in area of Strovolos in Nicosia between July 2023 and February 2024. According ...

The Larnaca district court on Tuesday issued a one-day remand against two 14-year-olds and a 16-year-old to facilitate police investigations regarding a case that took place in Kiti on May 4 ...

Two children were arrested on Monday in connection with an arson attack on a house in the Larnaca village of Kiti on Saturday night. The pair, aged 14 and 16 years old ...

A house belonging to a 73-year-old man was set on fire on Saturday night as a group of up to 70 youths attacked police who had been called as a lambradjia ...

A police car was completely destroyed on Easter Saturday night in what Limassol police spokesman Lefteris Kyriakou called an “organised attack”. The car had been set on fire when police ...

The prison guard who was arrested on suspicion of arson was remanded for eight days on Tuesday. The 47-year-old man was brought before the Nicosia district court and accused of ...

A prison guard was arrested on Monday after allegedly having set fire to a car in the early hours of Monday morning. The fire had broken out at around 4.20am ...

Police on Wednesday rearrested a 44-year-old man, who was already in custody, as a suspect in the arson of several cars located in a workshop in Nicosia, as well as ...

A 44-year-old man is expected to be brought before the Nicosia District Court on Wednesday in connection with two investigated cases of arson. The two cases of arson committed in ...

Police carried out 17 arrests related to 11 vehicle or building arson incidents on a nationwide basis in March, police spokesperson Christos Andreou said on Friday, adding that arson incidents are “a ...

A 24-year-old man was remanded in custody for four days on Saturday, suspected of having set fire to a barber shop. The fire had broken out at 10.30pm on Thursday ...

Police have said they believe a fire which broke out at a kindergarten in Nicosia’s old town on Friday night was an act of “juvenile delinquency”. The fire broke ...

A 24-year-old suspect was arrested in Paphos on Friday for allegedly setting fire to barber shop the night before. According to Paphos police, the man was arrested after police received ...

A barber shop in Paphos was targeted in an arson attack on Thursday night. A fire broke out in the shop at around 10.30pm, and while the fire brigade rushed ...

Police in Limassol arrested a 39-year-old man suspected of setting fire to an abandoned house in town early Wednesday morning, where seven Syrian nationals were reportedly housed. According to a ...

Police on Tuesday determined that a double-cab vehicle was destroyed by a fire outside of a petrol station in Parekklisia in an act of arson. The fire was put out ...