Police have launched a search operation following reports that a father illegally entered the government-controlled areas from the occupied north to abduct his minor child.
The incident has triggered an alert across law enforcement agencies after the child’s mother filed an official complaint with the Limassol Criminal Investigation Department (CID).
According to the report provided to authorities, the father, a Turkish Cypriot and former partner of the complainant, is alleged to have crossed the Green Line illegally.
He then travelled to Limassol, where the child resides with the mother, and took the minor before disappearing to an unknown location.
Police investigators are currently conducting extensive enquiries and searches to locate both the father and the child.
No further details regarding the age of the child or the specific point of entry used by the father have been released at this stage as the investigation remains in progress.