Cyprus Police Station Attacks

Police Station Attacks
	Part of Cyprus Emergency
Date	19–22 June 1955
Location	Nicosia and Amiandos, Cyprus
Belligerents
United Kingdom	EOKA
Casualties and losses
	1 policeman

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^[1]
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.^[2]^[3]

References

↑ "BOMB INCIDENTS ON CYPRUS". The Canberra Times. 22 June 1955. p. 1. Retrieved 8 November 2015 – via National Library of Australia.
↑ "The EOKA struggle during the Governorship of Armitage (1 April - 3 October 1955)", A history of the liberation struggle of EOKA (1955-1959) accessed 7 November 2013
↑ "CYPRUS OUTRAGES". The Central Queensland Herald. Rockhampton, Qld. 23 June 1955. p. 5. Retrieved 8 November 2015 – via National Library of Australia.

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[1] "BOMB INCIDENTS ON CYPRUS". The Canberra Times. 22 June 1955. p. 1. Retrieved 8 November 2015 – via National Library of Australia.

[2] "The EOKA struggle during the Governorship of Armitage (1 April - 3 October 1955)", A history of the liberation struggle of EOKA (1955-1959) accessed 7 November 2013

[3] "CYPRUS OUTRAGES". The Central Queensland Herald. Rockhampton, Qld. 23 June 1955. p. 5. Retrieved 8 November 2015 – via National Library of Australia.