No one was injured in an explosion at St Mary’s Fireworks factory in Għaxaq early on Tuesday.
The police said the explosion happened at around 12.45am. Nobody was at the site at the time.
People on social media commented that the explosion was heard from as far as Sliema.
District police as well as officers from the Rapid Intervention Unit, the Civil Protection Department and the army’s Explosives Ordinance Disposal Unit went on site.