Updated 12.44pm
Some readers may find descriptions in the testimony below disturbing.
A Bidnija resident recalled the horror of seeing and hearing Daphne Caruana Galizia being blown up inside her car in October 2017 when he testified in court on Tuesday.
Francis Sant was driving home from Tarġa Gap at 3 pm on October 16 of that year when he noticed something was wrong with a car heading in his direction.
The person inside the car seemed to be panicking, he recalled.
“ I heard a small bang, like fireworks. Then I heard a piercing scream,” Sant told the court.
That was followed by an explosion, as the small white car came hurtling “in a ball of fire”, just metres away from his.