A 24-year-old woman suffered lacerations to her feet when she was hit by a boat propeller at the Santa Marija Bay in Comino yesterday after falling overboard.

The incident happened at 2pm and she was helped on to an ambulance boat by lifeguards from the Emergency Response and Rescue Corps.

She was taken to Mġarr Harbour where a waiting ambulance took her to the Gozo General Hospital, the rescue corps said.

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