Cyprus police are investigating a case of premeditated murder following the death of 30-year-old Nigerian national Victory Osarumen Thompson, whose body was discovered in a Germasogeia apartment in Limassol on Sunday morning.
According to authorities, ambulance service members were called to the scene shortly after 10 a.m., where they found the woman dead inside the flat. Police were immediately notified. The victim had reportedly moved into the apartment only four days earlier and was sharing it with three other women of the same nationality.
Assistant Limassol Police Director for Operations, Lefteris Kyriakou, confirmed that the woman bore visible injuries to her head and body, indicating foul play. Forensic pathologists Angelikí Papetta and Orthodoxos Orthodoxou carried out an on-site examination, concluding that the death resulted from a criminal act.
During the course of the investigation, three women—two aged 24 and one aged 35—were arrested under court warrants. All three, reportedly cohabitants of the victim, were placed in eight-day police custody.
Further inquiries and the evaluation of witness statements led to two additional arrests on Tuesday morning: a 30-year-old man and a 31-year-old woman, both from Nigeria. The suspects, believed to be a couple, were allegedly present in the apartment at the time of the incident, along with the three previously arrested women, when the victim was beaten to death.
The newly arrested pair were detained separately—the man in Nicosia and the woman in Limassol—and are expected to appear before the Limassol District Court later today for a remand hearing.
The Limassol Criminal Investigation Department (CID) continues to lead the investigation, while the victim’s post-mortem examination is scheduled to take place to confirm the exact cause of death.
Authorities are treating the case as a deliberate act of homicide, marking one of the most shocking recent incidents of violence in the Limassol district.
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