An Austrian Airlines flight from Tripoli to Vienna was diverted to Malta this afternoon after a boy on board the plane was taken ill.

Sources said the boy was being taken to the Austrian capital for treatment after a traffic accident in Libya. His condition suddenly deteriorated on the flight.

The boy was transferred to a waiting ambulance and taken to Mater Dei Hospital.

Another Austrian flight was diverted to Malta yesterday because of a sand storm in Tripoli.

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