A police constable and a 72-year-old man were slightly injured when the man resisted the police as he was stopped trapping at Delimara this morning, the police said.

Officers from the Administrative Law Enforcement section noticed the man running away when they approached him. When they followed him, he threatened a police sergeant with a bottle. A constable tried to stop the elderly man, and was bitten by him.

The elderly man and another man, aged 55, were subsequently arrested. Both are from Zejtun.

The police said the elderly man is to be accused in court with slightly injuring a policeman, resisting and threatening policemen, and bird trapping.

The 55-year-old man will be accused of threatening the police.

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