A 47-year-old woman from Mgarr  died this afternoon after a car crash on the road leading to Mgarr from Mosta.

The incident happened at about 3.30 p.m.

The car was involved in a head-on collision with a truck carrying skips.

A medical team assisted her as rescuers from the Civil Protection Department worked to release her from the wreckage, but the mother-of-two died on the scene.

The woman had been driving home after taking one of her sons to an A-level exam.

The truck was driven by a 29-year-old man from Birkirkara.

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