Monday, July 11, 2011

Blasts at Cyprus naval base kill 12












Huge blasts in a seized Iranian arms cache at a Greek Cypriot naval base in southern Cyprus have killed at least 12 people, triggering power and water outages at the height of summer.

The early morning explosions devastated the adjacent Vassiliko power station in what Commerce Minister Antonis Paschalides called a "tragedy of Biblical dimensions" for the small Mediterranean island.

AFP