A man who was reported missing on Monday had died in hospital after he was involved in a workplace accident last week, the police have confirmed.

On Monday, the police had appealed for information that could lead them to find Somali national Ahmed Adawe Diriye, 39. He had last been seen in Birzebbugia on 20 December. The man lived in the same locality.

In an update later in the day, it said that the man had been identified as the person who was injured in Marsa on 22 December.

On that day, the police had said that a man had fallen one and a half storeys while working inside a factory at the Marsa industrial estate. A magisterial inquiry had been launched.

MaltaToday reported that nurses who treated the man in hospital had been unable to identify Diriye and referred to him as ‘Mr X’.

They identified him from the photo released by the police on Monday, in which they appealed for information from the public to help find the man.

The missing person’s report had been filed by relatives after Diriye abrubtly cut contact with his family on the day of the accident.

The police said on Monday evening that it had confirmed that Diriye was in fact the man who had been involved in the Marsa accident, and who had since passed away in hospital.