{"id":85565,"date":"2026-08-09T12:50:00","date_gmt":"2026-08-09T10:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shopsofmalta.com\/malta\/updated-missing-57-year-old-man-found-dead-in-a-field\/"},"modified":"2026-08-09T12:50:00","modified_gmt":"2026-08-09T10:50:00","slug":"updated-missing-57-year-old-man-found-dead-in-a-field","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shopsofmalta.com\/malta\/updated-missing-57-year-old-man-found-dead-in-a-field\/","title":{"rendered":"Updated: Missing 57-year-old man found dead in a field"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Updated: Missing 57-year-old man found dead in a field<\/p>\n<p><p>A man who was reported missing on Sunday morning has now been found dead in a field in the area where he was last seen, Police said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>The Police Force issued an appeal for information about the whereabouts of 57-year-old Eusebio Abela on Sunday morning.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>He had last been seen in the Bulebel area wearing shorts and a grey top with red stripes.<\/p>\n<p>Police released a still from CCTV footage showing Abela as it appealed for information.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement later on Sunday however, police said that Abela had been found dead in a field in Bulebel at around 5:30pm.<\/p>\n<p>The police said that the involvement of third parties is being excluded.<\/p>\n<p>Magistrate Philip Galea Farrugia is leading an inquiry while police investigations continue.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>RSS Feed Source: Independent Malta <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.com.mt\/articles\/2026-08-09\/local-news\/Police-appeal-for-information-on-missing-57-year-old-man-6736292012\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Updated: Missing 57-year-old man found dead in a field<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Updated: Missing 57-year-old man found dead in a field A man who was reported missing on Sunday morning has now been found dead in a field in the area where he was last seen, Police&#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-85565","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\/85565"}],"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=85565"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shopsofmalta.com\/malta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85565\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shopsofmalta.com\/malta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shopsofmalta.com\/malta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shopsofmalta.com\/malta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}