Cyprus Mail 8 September 2021 - by Stavros Nikolaou
Police said Wednesday they have arrested an 18-year-old conscript suspected of killing a dog and injuring another in Limassol on Monday.
The man was located by military police and handed over to Lania police station.
The incident was reported by the owner of the dogs on Monday evening after he found both animals injured from what appeared to be gunshots.
One of them died soon after it was found by its owner.
The man, 61, who lives in a Limassol village reported to the police that earlier in the day, at around 6.15 pm, he had heard a gunshot and went outside in his yard where he saw a neighbour of his aiming at something outside on the street and shooting twice.
He said that around an hour later he found one of his dogs, a six-month-old Jack Russel, injured in his yard, and after searching for the other one, of the same age and breed, he also found it with injuries that appeared to be caused by a shotgun. A while later, at around 8pm one of the dogs died.
