The World - News from May 22, 1988

An Austrian soldier of the U.N. force in Cyprus killed a Turkish Cypriot in the village of Pyla in the first fatal shoot-out involving the peace keeping force since its arrival on the island 24 years ago. State-run Cypriot Television said Hussein Kafa shot and wounded an Austrian soldier, who returned fire. A U.N. spokesman confirmed the wounding of the Austrian. but gave few other details. Pyla, 15 miles southeast of the capital of Nicosia, is the only village where Turkish and Greek Cypriots still live together despite the 14-year partition of the island. The eight-nation, 2,300-member U.N. force runs 143 observation posts along a 112-mile “Green Line” that has divided the island since Turkish troops invaded the northern third in 1974.