An elderly man died this afternoon when a tractor toppled on top of him near Delimara.

The police said the accident happened at Xrobb l-Għagin about 1pm.

A medical team tried to help the man, 74, from Marsaxlokk, but he died on the spot. 

A magisterial inquiry is under way. 

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