A 29-year-old man from Sliema was critically injured in an unusual boating incident yesterday. The police said the craft he was sailing suffered a technical fault and he was slammed to one side.

An armed forces rescue boat went out for him about 500 metres off St George’s Bay and brought him in at Haywharf. The man was with his brother and another man, in their 20s, who were unhurt.

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