TURKS RIOT IN CYPRUS

Press, Volume XCIII, Issue 27987, 6 June 1956, Page 13

TURKS RIOT IN CYPRUS

Curfew Now Placed On Famagusta

,K - Z - Press Association— Copyright) (Rec. 11 p.m.) NICOSIA, June 5. Strong British forces patrolled silent streets in Fama--7’< past the wreckage of Greek shops and iFght attacked hy rampaging young Cypriot Turks last Indignation ran high in the Greek sector of Famagusta, an east coast port, after four shops, two other buildings, a lorry and Tnrki^n 6 r recked b J Turks soon after 11,6 funeral of a Turkish policeman who had been the victim of a terrorist attack. , i Seven Cypriot Greeks were stoned, and three of them—including two women—were detained in hospital with serious head injuries. Security forces moved into the Turkish sector to impose a curfew there. As news of the riots spread, places of entertainment in the Greek sector closed down as well.

Villages were*combed last night by hundreds of security troops searching for the gunmen who attacked three unarmed Britons, killing one and wounding another, when they were returning from a swim the previous evening. One of them, Roy Garrett, aged 18. a trainee in a services transport section, after being wounded in the back, pretended to be dead, and afterwards crawled to a church. •' Garrett was captured by two terrorist gunmen as he went to the aid of the rallen serviceman, on a road 15 miles east of Larnaca last night. Ambush at Dusk The gunmen ambushed the three Britons with a spray of fire from behind roadside blocks at dusk. The terrorists took the youth to a point some distance from the scene of the ambush. They tied his hands, put a shotgun at his back, and fired at point-blank range. Garrett fell to the ground, pretending to be dead, and the terrorists ran away. He freed his hands and, although wounded, dragged himself to a nearby church. Heaving himself up, he managed to light some candles. Their twinkling light attracted the attention of a police patrol. The youth showed- them the site of the ambush and the serviceman’s body, and was then rushed to hospital, where he is reported to be seriously ill.