{"id":84471,"date":"2026-05-25T17:57:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-25T15:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shopsofmalta.com\/malta\/man-suffers-serious-injuries-after-falling-from-balcony-in-melliea\/"},"modified":"2026-05-25T17:57:00","modified_gmt":"2026-05-25T15:57:00","slug":"man-suffers-serious-injuries-after-falling-from-balcony-in-melliea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shopsofmalta.com\/malta\/man-suffers-serious-injuries-after-falling-from-balcony-in-melliea\/","title":{"rendered":"Man suffers serious injuries after falling from balcony in Mellie&#295;a"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Man suffers serious injuries after falling from balcony in Mellie&#295;a<\/p>\n<p>A 21-year-old Scottish man suffered serious injuries after falling around three storeys from a balcony in Mellie&#295;a on Sunday night.<\/p>\n<p>Police said they were informed at around 9pm that assistance was needed near a block of apartments in Triq il-Fortizza.<\/p>\n<p>Preliminary investigations showed that the man fell from a balcony of an apartment in the same street.<\/p>\n<p>A medical team and members of the Civil Protection Department were called to assist at the scene, before the man was taken to Mater Dei Hospital by ambulance for treatment.<\/p>\n<p>He was later certified as suffering from serious injuries.<\/p>\n<p>Magistrate Monica Borg Galea has opened an inquiry while police investigations are ongoing.<\/p>\n<p>RSS Feed Source: Independent Malta <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.com.mt\/articles\/2026-05-25\/local-news\/Man-suffers-serious-injuries-after-falling-from-balcony-in-Mellieha-6736289998\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Man suffers serious injuries after falling from balcony in Mellie&#295;a<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Man suffers serious injuries after falling from balcony in Mellie&#295;a A 21-year-old Scottish man suffered serious injuries after falling around three storeys from a balcony in Mellie&#295;a on Sunday night. Police said they were informed&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2139],"tags":[1850],"class_list":["post-84471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-malta-news","tag-abatement"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shopsofmalta.com\/malta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84471"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shopsofmalta.com\/malta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shopsofmalta.com\/malta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shopsofmalta.com\/malta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shopsofmalta.com\/malta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84471"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shopsofmalta.com\/malta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84471\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shopsofmalta.com\/malta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shopsofmalta.com\/malta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shopsofmalta.com\/malta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}