A 64-year-old man was seriously hurt after he fell a metre or so down a garage shaft.

The police said that the man, from Żejtun, had to be rescued with the help of the Civil Protection Department, and that he was being treated at Mater Dei hospital.

The accident occurred at 9.30am in Triq id-Dulliegħ.

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