Updated 10.50pm
Firefighters and police rushed to Mrabat street in Sliema this evening to put out a blazing car fire.
A resident living nearby told the Times of Malta they heard an explosion at the intersection between the busy street and Triq is-Sorijiet at around 10.15pm.
In a video sent in by a Times of Malta reader, a Civil Protection Department fire truck can be seen arriving on the scene, with a police car close behind. Firefighters quickly begin working to extinguish the flames, and the fire was soon extinguished.
Nobody was hurt, a CPD spokesman confirmed.
CPD firefighters rushed to put out the fire.