An Indian man suffered serious burns yesterday afternoon in fire from a barbeque.

The police said he was taken to hospital by ambulance and certified as being critically injured.

The accident took place at the dockyard in Cospicua when the man, 55, was trying to light the barbeque and the flames shot up. A magisterial inquiry is underway.

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