A 57-year-old construction worker from Sta Lucija was critically injured this afternoon on a construction site at Wied il-Ghasel near Mosta.

It is understood that stones fell from a crane as they were being lowered to the site. 

The man was working in a shaft some two storeys below street level. Rescuers needed to be called to the scene to lift him.

They used a crane made available by the construction workers.

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