Reuters July 9, 2013 - 14:09 By Michele Kambas NICOSIA (Reuters) - A former Cypriot defence minister was found guilty of manslaughter on Tuesday over a deadly munitions blast two years ago that killed 13 people and crippled the economy in the island's worst peacetime disaster. A court ruled that Costas Papacostas, who served in the former communist government, bore direct responsibility for a sequence of failures to safeguard a cargo of confiscated Iranian munitions that exploded in the early hours of July 11, 2011. Papacostas and three senior fire service officials found guilty of negligence will be sentenced on July 24. A former foreign minister, Marcos Kyprianou, and one other...
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