No Maltese persons were injured in the Boston bomb blasts, the Foreign Ministry said this morning.

Foreign Minister George Vella, who is in Mauritania attending the 5+5 Summit, said the government expressed sympathy with all the victims of the attack.

The minister said such an attack proved why countries should work together to fight terrorism and pledged Malta would cooperate with everybody to minimise the threat.

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