An armed forces boat pours water onto a yacht that caught fire off St Julian’s at about 11.30am yesterday, producing a thick plume of smoke seen as far away as Birkirkara. The one man aboard suffered no injuries but was taken to hospital to be treated for shock, a spokesman for the AFM said. The burnt-out shell of the boat was towed to land.

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