Cyprus police were hunting two men on Sunday wanted in connection with the killing of a British man in the seaside party resort of Ayia Napa, they said.
George Low, 22, was stabbed to death early Sunday in the southeast of the eastern Mediterranean holiday island.
Two men yielding knives attacked Low and another man near a nightclub in Ayia Napa, the police reported witnesses as saying.
“We have unfortunately yet to locate the suspects but our efforts are continuing,” deputy police chief Giorgos Economou said.
“The only thing that we know is that they are non-Cypriots,” he said of the suspects, adding that no security footage of their faces had yet been found.
He said checkpoints and airports on the island have been alerted.
“One of the victims sustained four knife wounds to his back and one to the neck which turned out to be a fatal blow,” Economou said.
Ayia Napa is the island’s most popular destination among young holidaymakers, especially British tourists attracted by the nightlife.
The bustling seaside town has also seen violence related to organised crime.
In June, four people were killed in a shootout outside a packed restaurant in the resort in an attack that had the hallmarks of a gangland vendetta.
And in 2013, five bodyguards were killed in Ayia Napa when two hired gunmen opened fire on a car belonging to a businessman they apparently thought was in it.
In 2012, a Briton killed a teenage British soldier during a disco fight in the resort.
Cyprus tourist arrivals hit a 14-year high in 2015 reaching 2.65 million, and this year industry officials are expecting it to be higher