#deaths

Three authorities are investigating the sinking of two boats off Cape Greco and the death of businessman Dimi Mavropoulos last Saturday, with separate inquiries examining the circumstances surrounding his death ...

The met office cannot ban boats from setting sail in bad weather, its representative Andreas Chrysanthou said on Sunday, as investigations into the death of Limassol businessman Dimi Mavropoulos aboard ...

A 22-year-old German tourist has died after being pulled unconscious from the swimming pool of an apartment complex in the Famagusta district yesterday night. The man was recovered from the ...

At least 50 people, mostly children, died after an overloaded boat capsized on Thursday in Nigeria’s northwest Sokoto state, witnesses said. The accident took place near Gorau in Goronyo local ...

The autopsy carried out on the five-month-old infant that died in Limassol on Tuesday has yielded no results with the exact cause yet to be determined, the police said on ...

Celebrated Nepali climber Nirmal Purja, who set a record for the fastest ascent of the world’s 14 highest mountains, died in an avalanche during an expedition in Pakistan, his company ...

At least 11 coal miners were killed and dozens are missing after an explosion buried parts of a mining complex in Pakistan’s Balochistan province on Thursday, an official said. Shoaib ...

A hearing on a bail application by the father accused of causing the deaths of his two young children after they were left inside a vehicle in the village of ...

A 50-year-old prisoner died at the Nicosia general hospital during the early hours of Thursday morning. The man, a Greek national, was serving a six-year sentence after being convicted of ...

Authorities on Thursday identified as a Congolese national the man who fell to his death earlier this week while trying to escape a raid by immigration officers in Larnaca. Though ...

An Israeli drone strike killed a 13-year-old boy in the northern Gaza Strip on Thursday, health officials said, as residents reported a renewed pattern of Israeli warnings urging people to ...

An 81-year-old male prisoner died in hospital on Tuesday night, the justice ministry announced on Wednesday. The ministry said the man had been “facing serious health problems” prior to his ...

A woman was found dead on a footpath in Limassol on Wednesday, the police confirmed. A police spokesperson told the Cyprus Mail that the woman was found in the east ...

An elderly man died in flood waters in Portugal and a woman was swept away by a swollen river in Spain after trying to rescue her dog, as Storm Leonardo ...

A fatal work accident was reported on Friday afternoon in the Kofinou area, resulting in the death of Finis Alexandru, 55, from Romania. According to Larnaca police spokesperson Spyros Chrysostomou, the ...

An autopsy was carried out on Friday on the body of the 49-year-old foreign woman found dead in her bathroom in Paralimni on Thursday and the authorities are awaiting the ...

A 45-year-old inmate who became ill at the central prisons on Saturday night has died of a heart attack, a post-mortem confirmed on Monday. According to findings by a forensic ...

An 80-year-old man from the Paphos district village of Drymou died after being crushed by his tractor at midday on Wednesday, police said. According to police, the victim, identified as ...

A woman was found dead in a block of flats in Limassol on Sunday. According to newspaper Phileleftheros, the woman had suffered “facial injuries”, which indicate that her death “may ...

A man was on Thursday found dead in a house in Nicosia, authorities said. According to police, the man’s body was discovered around 2.30pm in his home in the ...

A man drowned off the coast of Cape Greco, the joint rescue coordination centre (JRCC) announced on Wednesday. A JRCC representative told the Cyprus Mail that the man had been ...

An arrest warrant was issued for a 57-year-old driver following a fatal head-on collision on the road between Avdimou and Anogyra in Limassol district on Thursday, which claimed the life ...

British boxer Ricky Hatton, a former two-division world champion, has died at the age of 46, the World Boxing Association said on Sunday. Nicknamed ‘the Hitman’, Hatton won the WBA, IBO ...

Demetris and Maro Philippides, the elderly couple who died in the wildfire which tore through the Limassol district last month, “ignored instructions” given to them by the police, leading to ...