A man died this afternoon after suffering difficulties while swimming off Sliema.

The man, a foreigner in his 30s, was rescued by an AFM launch.

Soldiers gave him intensive CPR until he was brought ashore and taken to hospital in an ambulance, but efforts to revive him failed.

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