Truck reverses in Żurrieq alley, killing 75-year-old man

A 75-year-old man died in Żurrieq after the truck he was using reversed and trapped him against a rubble wall, Times of Malta reported, citing police.

Police said they were called at 7.30am to an alley off Triq Wied Iż-Żurrieq. Their account is stark enough without embellishment: an Isuzu KC truck reversed, and the man became pinned between the vehicle and the wall.

Members of the Civil Protection Department and a medical team from Mater Dei Hospital were sent to the scene. He was certified dead there.

Magistrate Renata Farrugia is leading an inquiry and police investigations are ongoing.

An alley off Triq Wied Iż-Żurrieq is a small, practical kind of place, the sort of working space that usually stays outside public notice. After a death like this, it enters the record through the hard details: one truck, one rubble wall, and an investigation into how the vehicle came to move.

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