Horrific images from the bridge collapse in Genoa dominate local newspapers’ front pages on Wednesday. Here’s a look at what made the headlines.

The Times of Malta leads with news that changes to local competition law have been finalised after a two-year wait during which the competition watchdog was effectively toothless.

The Malta Independent leads with a report on the Italian motorway bridge collapse, which killed 35 people.

It also reports on the sea rescue vessel Aquarius, which is to be brought to Malta and its 141 migrants aboard distributed among five other EU member states.  

In-Nazzjon writes that the Attorney General is “being hard-headed and abusing of his position” in seeking to block the fast-tracking of a a case calling for Opposition leader Adrian Delia to be given a copy of the Egrant inquiry.

The newspaper also reserves front page column inches for news that sea rescue vessel Aquarius  will be disembarking 141 migrants aboard in Malta.

L-Orizzont also focuses on the Aquarius news, though it takes a different angle, with its headline saying that “Malta will not take in any migrant aboard the Aquarius”.

The newspaper also writes that a group of migrants evicted from a cow shed turned into makeshift rooms in Qormi were not the first group of people to have lived in the structure.