Updated 3.55pm

A motorcyclist died in hospital on Friday, a few hours after he was rushed there following a traffic collision on a main road in San Ġwann. 

The crash on Vjal ir-Riħan, which involved a motorcycle and a van, was reported to the police at around 12.15pm. Officers at the site temporarily closed part of the road to traffic as paramedics took the crash victim to hospital via ambulance. 

The police said later the man died in hospital but not as a result of the accident.

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