
Demetris and Maro Philippides, the elderly couple who died in the wildfire which tore through the Limassol district last month, “ignored instructions” given to them by the police, leading to their death, the force’s chief Themistos Arnaoutis said on Friday.
He told a joint session of the House agriculture, environment, and interior committees held in light of the fire that the couple had driven out of the village of Silikou,