A Cypriot newspaper reported on Tuesday that two Pakistani men had been arrested on the island, following information from British authorities that they were planning a car bomb attack on the US or British embassy.
The daily Phileleftheros newspaper said one of the men was arrested in Nicosia with a forged passport. He appeared before a district court on Sunday and was remanded in custody for eight days. The second man was arrested on Monday in Paphos, on the western coast, it said. The newspaper said the vehicle that was purportedly to be used in the attack had been registered under the name of a foreign woman who told police she had never seen it before. Investigators later tracked down the vehicle to an unnamed foreign man. |