The proprietor of a hotel in Paphos is threatening to jump off its roof after the administration of Turkish Cypriot properties decided to take back the property, reports said on Tuesday.

The man climbed on the roof after members of the administration went to the hotel in the morning to take possession of the establishment.

Justice minister Ionas Nicolaou was on Monday facing down calls that he step down, on the back of reports that under his watch police bungled investigations into at least two missing Filipino women – since found dead – and following revelations that he disregarded warnings about disappearing domestic workers months ago.

Much warmer and sunnier weather than Cyprus has experienced lately is forecast for this week, with a low-pressure system giving way to a high-pressure system by Tuesday.

Search teams returned to the Mitsero mine and the lake at Xyliatos on Monday to search for a missing six-year-old girl whose mother was found dead in a water-filled shaft with the body of another woman, as police said it would be premature to speculate on the scale of the crime.