Meloni offers solidarity with top journalist after blast hits car

Sigfrido Ranucci, at the right of the picture, was targeted in the blast (LaPresse via AP)

Italy’s prime minister Giorgia Meloni has condemned those behind an explosive device that detonated under the car of one of the country’s leading investigative journalists while it was parked outside his home.

No-one was injured after the blast which destroyed the vehicle of Sigfrido Ranucci and damaged a second family car and the house next to it in Pomezia, south of Rome.