A 22-year-old Syrian worker was badly injured in a five-storey fall at a construction site in St Julians yesterday afternoon.

The accident happened in Ir-Rampa Street at about 5 p.m..

The police said that though the injuries the worker sustained in the fall were serious they were not life threatening. He is receiving treatment at Mater Dei Hospital.

The police are investigating the accident.

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