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Three people have been seriously injured, one grievously, in a head on collision under the Cospicua tunnel.
The collision, between a cement bowser and a car, occurred at about 11 a.m. The police said two children, one aged 12 and the other 15, who had been in the car, suffered life-threatening injuries while the driver was slightly injured.
Members of the Civil Protection Department, the police and medical personnel had to remove parts of the car to extract the three from the wreckage.
The cement bowser was driven by a 40-year-old man from Qormi.