A chairlift at the Emigrants Commission in Valletta was gutted after a fire broke out at around 1.30am.

It is suspected that the fire was caused by a short circuit in the chairlift’s mechanism.

It was immediately put out by a police officer who was on duty next to Auberge de Castille and heard a small explosion.

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