Journalist killed in bomb attack

A Maltese investigative journalist who exposed the island nation’s links to offshore tax havens through the leaked Panama Papers was killed on Monday when a bomb exploded in her car, the prime minister said.

Daphne Caruana Galizia, 53, had just driven away from her home in Mosta, a large town on Malta’s main island, when the bomb went off, sending the vehicle’s wreckage spiralling over a wall and into a field, prime minister Joseph Muscat said.

Home affairs minister Michael Farrugia said the EU country had appealed to the FBI to help investigate the bombing attack.