A construction worker who suffered a four-storey fall in a construction site in Qawra five days ago, has succumbed to his injuries, the police said on Tuesday.

The worker, 23, was from Mali. 

Activists who held a protest on Tuesday over excesses by the building industry, observed a minute's silence out of respect for victims of construction site accidents.

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