Almost 200 evacuation shelters are unsuitable or do not exist

Almost 200 sites which were listed by the civil defence as evacuation shelters are unsuitable for use or no longer exist, Interior Minister Constantinos Ioannou said on Wednesday.

He said that inspections were carried out at the 2,480 sites which are listed as shelters, and that it was found that 194 either “are not suitable” or “the buildings no longer exist”, and that therefore, they were “declassified as shelters”.

Additionally, he said, it was found that a further 288 shelters are now not accessible to the public...