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A 23-year-old woman from St Paul's Bay was rescued from the sea in the middle of St Paul's Bay this afternoon after the people who reported her presence initially thought they had seen a corpse.

The AFM deployed a helicopter and a patrol boat to the scene and the woman, who was conscious and spoke to her rescuers, was airlifted to Mater Dei Hospital.

The incident took place at about 5 p.m.

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