Tourists remanded for smuggling cigarettes

Four tourists have been remanded after they attempted to leave the island with almost 300 cartons of duty-free cigarettes, police said on Wednesday.

Three women, aged 59, 54 and 53, and a 52-year-old man, were arrested at Paphos airport on Monday night after customs officers found in total 280 cartons of duty-free cigarettes in their luggage.

It is understood that each of them carried 70 of those cartons in their individual suitcase.

The four appeared before the Paphos...