Police in Cyprus are searching for a man who is reported to have killed a 42-year-old Sri Lankan in in the early hours of Monday morning.
According to CID officer who was quoted by the Cyprus Mail Online Ioannis Soteriades the victim was found in the flat of a relative on the sixth floor of an apartment building on Michal Michaelides street, off Makarios Avenue.
According to police, when the bell rang, the victim answered the door and was stabbed with a knife. He died from the wounds while the attacker immediately fled the scene. The incident took place in Limassol in the South Western coast of Cyprus.
Police sealed off the area and started investigations with the aim of tracking down the man who escaped, who according to witnesses is also Asian and lives in a nearby building. It is believed the victim and the suspect seem to have known each other but the motives behind the murder have not yet been worked out.
First Bishop of the Batticaloa Diocese, Retired Bishop Joseph Ponnaiya, passed away today at the age of 74, following a brief illness.
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