{"id":85248,"date":"2026-07-17T12:28:00","date_gmt":"2026-07-17T10:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shopsofmalta.com\/malta\/elderly-man-dies-after-being-caught-between-truck-and-mechanical-shovel\/"},"modified":"2026-07-17T12:28:00","modified_gmt":"2026-07-17T10:28:00","slug":"elderly-man-dies-after-being-caught-between-truck-and-mechanical-shovel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shopsofmalta.com\/malta\/elderly-man-dies-after-being-caught-between-truck-and-mechanical-shovel\/","title":{"rendered":"Elderly man dies after being caught between truck and mechanical shovel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Elderly man dies after being caught between truck and mechanical shovel<\/p>\n<p>A 74-year-old man from Mellie&#295;a tragically lost his life this morning after being caught between a truck and a mechanical shovel.<\/p>\n<p>The police said the accident happened at around 10.15am.<\/p>\n<p>Preliminary investigations revealed that the victim was in the process of unloading a mechanical digger from a truck when, for reasons yet to be determined, he became trapped between the two pieces of machinery.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the rapid arrival of personnel from the Civil Protection Department and a medical team from Mater Dei Hospital, the man was unfortunately pronounced dead at the scene.<\/p>\n<p>Duty Magistrate Monica Borg Galea has launched an inquiry into the incident, and police investigations are ongoing.<\/p>\n<p>\nRSS Feed Source: Independent Malta <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.com.mt\/articles\/2026-07-17\/local-news\/Elderly-man-dies-after-being-caught-between-truck-and-mechanical-shovel-6736291450\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Elderly man dies after being caught between truck and mechanical shovel<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elderly man dies after being caught between truck and mechanical shovel A 74-year-old man from Mellie&#295;a tragically lost his life this morning after being caught between a truck and a mechanical shovel. The police said&#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-85248","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\/85248"}],"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=85248"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shopsofmalta.com\/malta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85248\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shopsofmalta.com\/malta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shopsofmalta.com\/malta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shopsofmalta.com\/malta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}