The Malta Rescue Co-ordination Centre said that it received a call at about 1.30pm this afternoon from the Victoria police station in Gozo, reporting that a jeep with two people on board had fallen into the sea at Marsalforn bay. Concurrently, the Civil Protection Department (CPD) also called RCC Malta saying that some people reported seeing a jeep drifting along with road water currents towards the sea.

An AFM rescue helicopter as well as a Patrol Vessel P32 were dispatched to the scene and a rescuer was deployed, however, CPD personnel reported that a vehicle a KIA was stuck and partly submerged in water and a woman and two children had already been evacuated from the vehicle by CPD personnel.

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