One car bomb blast victim may have been transporting device

One of the three car-bomb explosions in 2016 has still not been registered as a homicide, as police are still unsure whether the explosive device had been planted in the victim’s car or he himself had transported it. Home Affairs Minister Carmelo Abela told Parliament on Monday that a man had been the victim of a bomb in his car that morning. Investigations are still ongoing to establish whether the 2016 case was one of homicide or an unintended death. In October of last year, businessman John Camilleri was killed by a powerful car bomb in a residential area of Bugibba. Police sources confirmed that the improvised explosive device, which had blown the roof off the top of Mr Camilleri’s Pajero jeep, had been inside the vehicle when it went off. This led investigators to believe that the bomb may have been transported in the vehicle and did not necessarily target Mr Camilleri. Sources said bombs were normally attached to the bottom of vehicles when the intent was to kill. Mr Abela also told Parliament that four cases of homicide had been registered with the authorities last year. The victims were three Maltese, two women and a man, and a fourth foreign man. Three of these cases...