A 59-year-old man was seriously injured on Wednesday when he fell in a Valletta house apparently because of a power cut, the police said. 

The worker, from Gharghur, fell a height of a metre and a half.

The incident happened at about 11am in Mediterranean Street.

A magisterial inquiry is underway.

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