Livestock farmers’ group leader threatened at gunpoint in late-night ambush

The president of the Voice of Livestock Farmers was threatened at gunpoint by three masked men in a late-night ambush he says was directly linked to his group’s campaigning over the foot-and-mouth disease outbreak.

Neofytos Neofytou filed a complaint with authorities late Tuesday night after the incident, which police said occurred at around 11:25pm on the old Delikipos-Lythrodontas road, shortly after a Voice of Livestock Farmers meeting in Choirokoitia....