Panama Papers journalist killing: WikiLeaks founder Assange offers Euro 20,000 for information

Wikileaks chief Julian Assange has announced a reward of Euro 20,000 for information about the killing of Maltese Panama Papers journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia after a car bomb explosion on Monday.

Her son, Mathew Caruana Galizia, also an investigative journalist took to social media to attack the "crooks" of Malta, calling it a "mafia-run state".

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The slain 53-year-old investigative journalist's body parts were found strewn around the car that was fitted with a bomb.

In an emotional Facebook post, Galizia's son, wrote about his futile attempts to rescue his mother from the car that was like an "inferno in the field", "screaming at two policemen who turned up with one fire extinguisher to douse the flames".

"My mother was assassinated because she stood between the rule of law and those who sought to violate it, like many strong journalists. But she was also targeted because she was the only person doing so. This is what happens when the institutions of the state are incapacitated: the last person left standing is often a journalist. Which makes her the first person left dead," Galizia's son wrote.

Called a "one-woman WikiLeaks", Daphne Galizia's latest stories exposed connections between international accounts linked with corruption cases and the Prime Minister of Malta, Joseph Muscat. She had worked deeply with data from the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists' Panama Papers investigation.

Her son is also an ICIJ journalist and investigated the Panama Papers as a part of the Pulitzer Award-winning team.