A ten-year-old-girl drowned on Thursday in a swimming pool at a private residence in the Coral Bay area of Paphos.
According to the police, at around 4pm they received a call about a girl floating unconscious in a swimming pool at a villa.
Fire Department officers pulled the young girl out of the swimming pool. She had already expired.
State broadcaster CyBC identified the girl as a Russian national.
A spokesman for Paphos CID said she was in Cyprus on holiday with her mother.
The scene was cordoned off. A medical examiner was scheduled to carry out an autopsy.