Cyprus Police Station Attacks

Police Station Attacks

Date	19–22 June 1955
Location	Nicosia and Amiandos, Cyprus

Belligerents

United Kingdom

EOKA

Casualties and losses

1 policeman

Cyprus Emergency

1 April Attacks (April 1955) Nicosia Cinema Bombing (May 1955) Police Station Attacks (June 1955) Kyrenia Castle Escape (Sept 1955) Battle of Famagusta (Nov 1955) Battle of the Pine (Nov 1955) Battle of Spilia (Dec 1955) Battle of Yialousa Battle at Nicosia Hospital (Aug 1956) Operation Lucky Alphonse (June 1956) Lepka Raid (April 1957) Battle of Lioepetri (Sept 1958)

The Police Station Attacks were a series of terrorist 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 (ACT : 1926 - 1995). ACT: National Library of Australia. 22 June 1955. p. 1. Retrieved 8 November 2015.
↑ "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. : 1930 - 1956). Rockhampton, Qld.: National Library of Australia. 23 June 1955. p. 5. Retrieved 8 November 2015.

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