A 17-year-old boy died on Sunday evening after being found unconscious in a schoolyard in Paphos, the police said on Monday.
Paphos police’s assistant operations director Michalis Nikolaou said the boy had, according to witness testimony, “allegedly inhaled gas from a can or spray … in the presence of his peers”.
The boy reportedly fainted in front of his friends, with an ambulance arriving on the scene at around 7pm to take him to hospital.
However, Nikolaou said, “despite doctors’ efforts to revive him, this was not possible”.
He added that investigations into the matter are ongoing.
Inhaling gases, solvents, and aerosols is a method of getting high, though, as the United Kingdom’s national drug advisory service Talk to Frank writes, “it is difficult to control the dose, and all methods are potentially fatal”.