NICOSIA (Reuters) - An alleged security scare involving Britain`s Prince Charles did not take place anywhere near Cyprus, the island`s Foreign Ministry said. Downplaying the scare as reported in the British press, senior diplomats said a minor incident occurred between the Greek islands of Rhodes and Kos - more than 200 kilometres away from the shores of Cyprus. The prince stopped for a swim on a coastline and a group of Greeks in a dingy were heading towards the coast. They were stopped 300 metres away by security. According to a British newspaper, the prince was forced to trigger his personal security alarm to summon his police bodyguard when angry protesters waving a harpoon gun and cursing his mother, Queen Elizabeth, caught him swimming in the Mediterranean. The officials said Greeks, a man and a woman, exchanged some words with security personnel on why they were not allowed to approach the coast. The man said he wanted to protest to Prince Charles because his brother was killed in Cyprus in 1955. Nobody had brandished a harpoon. Several Greek Cypriots were executed by the colonial rulers of Cyprus between 1955 and 1959 during a guerrilla struggle for independence.