{"id":85344,"date":"2026-07-24T15:47:00","date_gmt":"2026-07-24T13:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shopsofmalta.com\/malta\/elderly-man-dies-after-falling-into-sea-in-buibba\/"},"modified":"2026-07-24T15:47:00","modified_gmt":"2026-07-24T13:47:00","slug":"elderly-man-dies-after-falling-into-sea-in-buibba","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shopsofmalta.com\/malta\/elderly-man-dies-after-falling-into-sea-in-buibba\/","title":{"rendered":"Elderly man dies after falling into sea in Bu&#289;ibba"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Elderly man dies after falling into sea in Bu&#289;ibba<\/p>\n<p>An elderly man aged over 80 has died after falling into the sea in Bu&#289;ibba on Friday morning.<\/p>\n<p>Police said the incident occurred at around 10:30am while the man was sitting by the water&#8217;s edge. Initial information indicates that he may have suffered a medical issue before falling into the sea.<\/p>\n<p>Emergency services were called to the scene, where the man was recovered from the water. Despite efforts to assist him, he was pronounced dead.<\/p>\n<p>\nRSS Feed Source: Independent Malta <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.com.mt\/articles\/2026-07-24\/local-news\/Elderly-man-dies-after-falling-into-sea-in-Bugibba-6736291644\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Elderly man dies after falling into sea in Bu&#289;ibba<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elderly man dies after falling into sea in Bu&#289;ibba An elderly man aged over 80 has died after falling into the sea in Bu&#289;ibba on Friday morning. Police said the incident occurred at around 10:30am&#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-85344","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\/85344"}],"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=85344"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shopsofmalta.com\/malta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85344\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shopsofmalta.com\/malta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shopsofmalta.com\/malta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shopsofmalta.com\/malta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}