Student attacked and robbed in Old Nicosia

Last week, on Saturday the 1st of August, a 26-year-old south Asian student was ‘violently ambushed and robbed’ at around 4:20am in Nicosia, in a parking lot near the construction beside the ‘Oxi’ roundabout.

The student told en.philenews that a group of about ‘three to four men,’ who they believed to have been speaking Arabic, approached them, asking if they would like a cigarette. When the student said no, the men attacked them, throwing them to the ground and stealing their phone and flat...