Police Station Attacks

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

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.^[1] 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
• 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]

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