A young woman was seriously injured on Tuesday morning when she fell down a shaft in a building in Birkirkara.

The alert was raised at about 7.30am and rescuers from the police and the Civil Protection Department had a difficult task extracting the woman, a 26-year-old Macedonian.

The accident happened in Agius De Soldanis Street, a road near Psaila Street but the woman was recovered from another access in Valley Road.

An eyewitness said the victim was conscious as she was taken to hospital.  The shaft had a height of between three and four storeys, the witness said. 

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