A senior citizen had to be rescued from inside his own well on Friday afternoon after he fell down it, sending him falling one storey.

The 77-year-old man was doing some gardening at his Żebbuġ home on Mdina Road when the well cover gave way as he walked across it at around 12pm. 

Emergency services lifted him out of the well and rushed him to hospital, where he is being treated.

Doctors have said that he is seriously injured. 

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