Police are investigating a suspected premeditated murder and attempted murder in Nicosia after a 44-year-old Vietnamese woman was found dead in a flat in the Agios Antonios area and a second woman was discovered seriously injured on a nearby street.
The second woman remains in critical condition in hospital.
According to police, officers received a report at around 11.30pm on Saturday of an injured woman at the junction of Digeni Akrita and Larnakos avenues.
Officers who arrived at the scene found the woman, who is of Asian origin, with wounds to her neck and back.
She was taken by ambulance to Nicosia General Hospital, where she underwent surgery.
Nicosia Criminal Investigation Department (CID) is investigating the case.
