Updated 12.34pm.
A crane lowers rescuers to the car at the bottom of the cliff.A rescue operation by the police and the Civil Protection Department came to a sad end on Tuesday when a man was found dead in the wreckage of a car at the foot of a cliff at l-Aħrax, near Mellieħa.
The car crashed down the cliff at about 8am and the driver was initially thought to be still alive.
Rescuers went down to the car using a crane but the man was dead by the time he was reached.
The difficult rescue operation underway on Tuesday morning.
Rescue boats seen at the foot of the cliff at L-Aħrax. Photo Mal Bell.
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