A 62-year-old man was seriously injured on Friday evening when he fell down an apartment block shaft in Żebbuġ, Gozo.

The British national fell a one-storey height in the 7pm incident on Triq ir-Rabat.

It took Civil Protection Department expertise to lift the man to safety, and he was then taken to Gozo General Hospital by ambulance.

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