It seems like workplace injuries and deaths are increasing across Malta in recent months, with the latest heart-breaking workplace casualty potentially shedding on the critical situation Malta is dealing with at the moment.

The man previously referred to as ‘Mr. X’ by nurses due to the lack of identifying documentation was identified as 39-year-old Somali Ahmed Adawe Diriye, a Birzebbugia resident who fell one storey and a half while installing solar panels in a Marsa factory. After the Malta Police Force had issued a call for the missing man, authorities had realised that he had in fact died days prior due to serious injuries from the workplace incident. This comes after a similar case, that of 32-year-old Jaiteh Lamin, where the Ghanian worker fell one storey in Mellieha and was left injured on the side of the road.

To literally add insult to injury, a number of Maltese commenters on various social media sites began to post a number of racist and hateful comments in light of Ahmed’s death, with Maltese commenter Daniel Muscat shedding light on the cold-hearted nature of such comments as the population worries about ‘false numbers’ instead of what is missing in their hearts.

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