Cyprus Police Station Attacks

The Police Station Attacks were a series of terrorist attacks by the EOKA on police stations in Cyprus during June 1955 which led to the start of the Cyprus Emergency. The attacks took place:
 * 19 June - dynamite attack at the police station at the Nicosia suburb of Ayios Dhometios;
 * 19 June - bomb set off the central police building at Nicosia
 * 22 June - the police station at Amiandos was attacked by an EOKA guerrilla group led by Renos Kyriakides, resulting in the death of a policeman.