Worker injured after lift falls in government building

Sources tell MaltaToday that maintenance was being done on one of the older lifts at the Department of Information building in Valletta, when the lift fell leaving a man injured

The ambulance leaving the site
The ambulance leaving the site

A man at Valletta's Department of Information building was hospitalised after a lift he was working on fell.

Sources told MaltaToday that maintenance was being done on one of the older lifts in the building when the lift fell around four storeys.

Police confirmed the accident with this newspaper, saying that the victim is a 25-year-old man from Romania.

An ambulance rushed the worker to Mater Dei Hospital, but his conditions are not yet known.