With honors of an active policeman, the burial of the bones of Christakis Kombos who was murdered during the coup.
The bones of Christakis Kobous, murdered by EOKA II, were buried with honors – His bones were identified with the DNA methodand they returned to the cemetery of Agios Nikolaos Limassol
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With honours of an active police officer, the hero of the resistance and member of the reserve corps, Christakis Kombos, was buried, the bones of which they were identified by the DNA methodand they returned to the cemetery of Agios Nikolaos Limassol, where they had been for 48 years, together with the bones of the brothers Charalambous and Anastasios Christofis and Pantelakis Charalambous.
The four were murdered by members of EOKA B'< /strong>, when the vehicle they were traveling in stopped in the area of Pareklisia and they were murdered in a garbage dump in the area of Agios Tychonas. Their lifeless bodies were found, roughly buried, on August 4, 1974 and transferred to the Agios Nikolaos cemetery where they were placed in a mass grave. Annita Dimitriou, the Commissioner of the Presidency, Fotis Fotiou, the Assistant Chief of Police, Ioannis Georgiou, the former General Secretary of AKEL Andros Kyprianou, MPs, mayors, relatives and friends of Christakis Kombos.
Mr. Omirou, mentioned in the history of the tragic end of Christakis Kombos, who was one of the members of the reserve corps that put up resistance against the coup plotters, at the Presidential Palace, and accompanied the Ethnoarch Makarios to Kliros.
