The man who died on Thursday when his car crashed into four parked vehicles in Cannon Road, Sta Venera, died of heart failure as a result of ischaemic heart disease, the autopsy has found.

Ischaemic heart disease is characterised by reduced blood supply to the heart muscle.

The man, 59-year-old Saviour Portelli of Hamrun, was driving an Opel Astra.

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