Police on Thursday evening arrested a man in Limassol whom they suspect of being involved in the killing of a cyclist earlier in the day.
The cyclist, Panayiotis Hadjinicola, 33, was travelling on the road from Kantou to Platres when a vehicle hit him from behind at around 6am, forcing the bike to crash into the protective barrier at the side of the road.
He was thrown into a field and was killed instantly.
The driver of the vehicle fled the scene and the dead man was discovered by a passing driver 15 minutes after the fatal crash.
Police were looking for the driver until they found the car which allegedly hit Hadjinicola outside a house in Limassol at 10.40pm.
The 76-year-old owner of the vehicle, a resident of Limassol, who was arrested, admitted to being in the area at the time of the accident but said he didn’t realise he had hit the cyclist.
The front of bumper of his pick up car was dented, police said.