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Police Station Attacks

Cyprus police station attacks during June 1955

The Police Station Attacks were a series of guerrilla style attacks by the EOKA on police stations in Cyprus during June 1955 which led to the start of the Cyprus Emergency. The attacks took place:

19 June – dynamite attack at the police station at the Nicosia suburb of Ayios Dhometios;

19 June – bomb set off the central police building at Nicosia

22 June – the police station at Amiandos was attacked by an EOKA guerrilla group led by Renos Kyriakides, resulting in the death of a policeman.

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