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.