1956 1957 1958 The Nicosia cinema bmbing took place on 24 May 1955.

A cinema in Nicosia was bombed by the EOKA as part of an unsuccessful attempt to assassinate British governor Sir Robert Armitage.

The bomb went off a few yards from where Armitage had been sitting a few minutes earlier; however by the time of the explosion most of the cinema had been vacated.

The cinema had been screening the movie Forbidden Cargo on Empire Day as a fundraiser for the British Legion Fund.

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