Prison siege continues
NZPA-Reuter Nicosia Three policemen and four prison guards have spent their third night as hostages of inmates in Nicosia’s main jail, having been without food since Saturday, Government sources have said. The Government has refused the inmates’ demands for food and cigarettes and has allowed them only a little drinking water. Earlier, three prisoners from the same cell block joined the original six prisoners and a woman, a Government spokesman said, but gave little other information. However, official sources confirmed that the Government had a plan to force an entry into the cellblock, but that it would be used only if efforts to free the hostages peacefully failed. President Spyros Kyprianou said that he would not bow to the prisoners’ demand to be allowed to leave Cyprus. The sources indicated that the Government was prepared to wait a long time for the prisoners to surrender quietly. If force is used, a bloody gun battle could result as I the prisoners are known to possess several guns.
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Press, 20 September 1978, Page 8
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