The time was practically 3, 5 to 3.

5 to 3 in the afternoon.

Yes.

And definitely was going out from her home.

That's her house over there at the top of the hill just behind that dry stone wall and there's a lot of trees around.

Usually she parks her car inside the residence for safety.

At that particular day, so on the 16th of October,

she parked her car outside her house near the gate.

I'm Tim Huell and this is assignment on the BBC World Service.

Beside a narrow lonely road in Malta.

It's a rare rural spot on this small built-up Mediterranean island.

Crime reporter Joe McAuliffe is reconstructing the last minutes

in the life of a woman whose name shortly afterwards would ricoche

around the world. Malta's most prominent blogger, scourge of her country's authorities, Daphne Karwana Galizia.

So she went out from her house, entered her car and she started going down.

The road starts to descend immediately outside a house down into this little valley.

Exactly, exactly. Then 80 meters from her home, the first explosion. It was the activation of the bomb. The car continued going down

three four seconds after. It was a huge explosion. that was the second one the car ended not in the first

field but at the second one so that the car was flung right across into this field.

Exactly.

Then here it took place the third bomb

due to the explosion of the fuel tank.

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