A 74-year-old man has been hospitalised after falling off scaffolding outside a hotel in St Paul's Bay.

The police said the man had been doing maintenance work on the facade of the hotel when he fell a height of one storey.

The accident happened at about 10am at Triq Dawret il-Gżejjer.

His injuries were described as serious.

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