Man missing after Mellieħa swim is found dead
The lifeless body of a 29-year-old Bangladeshi who went missing after a swim in Mellieħa was spotted by an army patrol boat some two miles off the coast
4 May 2020, 1:45pm
Kurt Sansone
Kurt Sansone
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A 29-year-old man died at sea after finding difficulty while swimming off l-Aħrax in Mellieħa
A man who went missing after going for a swim off L-Aħrax in Mellieħa on Saturday has been found dead, the police said.
The lifeless body of the 29-year-old Bangladeshi was spotted some two miles off the coast by an Armed Forces of Malta patrol boat at around 11:30am.
The body was brought ashore at Marfa and was identified as that of a man who went missing in the area on Saturday.
He had been swimming with another 21-year-old Bangladeshi when the pair experienced difficulty in the choppy seas.
The 21-year-old managed to make it ashore and was treated for slight injuries at Mater Dei Hospital.
However, a search for the missing man yielded no results until this morning when the lifeless body was spotted adrift.
Magistrate Charmaine Galea is conducting an inquiry.
Kurt Sansone is Executive Editor of MaltaToday.
He was formerly deputy editor of MaltaTod...
