Family: coup forces killed boy, grandmother in 1974

Fifty-two years after the coup of July 15, 1974, the family of eight-year-old Stavros Pidias and his 62-year-old grandmother, Margarita Theodorou, still marks the anniversary of the morning both were shot dead in the Agios Ioannis area of Limassol.

The two were killed by machine-gun fire in front of the rest of the family, who had gathered at the grandmother’s house for breakfast. The house on Milou Street stood a short distance south of the Agios Ioannis Police Station, where fierce fighting...