An elderly Italian fisherman was on Wednesday airlifted off a fishing vessel to Mater Dei Hospital.

Malta’s Rescue Coordination Centre received a distress call and a helicopter was sent to the site some 50 nautical miles off the coast of Malta.

The sailor needed urgent medical attention.

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