Panama Papers journalist killed by car bomb

Maltese Prime Minister Joseph Muscat calls bombing a ‘barbaric act’

Locals hold a candlelight vigil for slain journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia
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A Maltese journalist responsible for the Panama Papers investigation into corruption in her country has been killed by a car bomb near her home.

“Daphne Caruana Galizia, 53, had just driven away from her home in Mosta, a town outside Malta’s capital of Valletta, when the bomb went off, sending the vehicle's wreckage spiralling over a wall and into a field,” the ABC reports.

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