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The second of three firemen injured seriously when their truck overturned into a gully on Monday, during efforts to put out a large forest on Cyprus, has died. Cypriot media reported the death on Tuesday morning. Themi Kallos reports.


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The second of three firemen injured seriously when their truck overturned into a gully on Monday, during efforts to put out a large forest on Cyprus, has died. Cypriot media reported the death on Tuesday morning. Themi Kallos reports.


Marios Aristotelous, 44, was on the same truck as 49-year-old Andreas Sophocleous when it overturned into a gully, crushing Sophocelous to death and seriously injuring the other two firefighters on the crew. Aristotelous died at Nicosia General Hospital on Monday night.

 

The third firefighter is still in critical condition, though he is described as stable.


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