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| Malta blogger Daphne Caruana Galizia killed in car bomb attack | |
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| A prominent blogger in Malta, who had accused the island's government of corruption, has died in a car bomb attack, according to police. | |
| Daphne Caruana Galizia, 53, was reportedly killed when the car she was driving exploded shortly after she left her home in Bidnija, near Mosta. | |
| Local media say one of her sons heard the blast and rushed outside. | |
| PM Joseph Muscat, whom Caruana Galizia accused of wrongdoing earlier this year, condemned the "barbaric attack". | |
| "Everyone knows Ms Caruana Galizia was a harsh critic of mine, both politically and personally," he said. | "Everyone knows Ms Caruana Galizia was a harsh critic of mine, both politically and personally," he said. |
| But he stressed there could be "no justification... in any way" for such action. | |
| "I will not rest before justice is done." | |
| Caruana Galizia's death comes four months after Mr Muscat's Labour Party won an election he called early because of the blogger's allegations linking him and his wife to the Panama Papers scandal. | |
| The couple denied claims that they had used secret offshore bank accounts to hide payments from Azerbaijan's ruling family. |