The Police Station Attacks were a series of guerrilla style 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[1]
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.[2][3]
^"BOMB INCIDENTS ON CYPRUS". The Canberra Times. 22 June 1955. p. 1. Retrieved 8 November 2015 – via National Library of Australia.
^"The EOKA struggle during the Governorship of Armitage (1 April - 3 October 1955)", A history of the liberation struggle of EOKA (1955-1959) Archived 8 January 2014 at the Wayback Machine accessed 7 November 2013
^"CYPRUS OUTRAGES". The Central Queensland Herald. Rockhampton, Qld. 23 June 1955. p. 5. Retrieved 8 November 2015 – via National Library of Australia.
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