Dead man found in Birzebbugia / Malta News Briefing – Thursday 14 July 2022
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Update 2100h A corpse was found in an advanced state of decomposition in Birzebbuġa, on Thursday evening, police said. The dead man was found at about 6.30pm near a parking lot opposite Għar Dalam.
The gruesome discovery comes more than two weeks after an elderly man suffering from dementia went missing from St Vincent de Paul residence in Luqa.
Over the past weeks, the police had also been searching for another elderly man who went missing from Żejtun.
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