Following orders? Communist Kerala wakes up to serial blast in Jehovah's Witnesses after Hamas leader's provocative speech
The first explosion took place around 9 am and multiple blasts followed thereafter, over the next one hour. More than 2,000 people were attending the prayer meeting when the blasts took place.
Just day after the Khaled Mashal, the former leader of the Hamas militant group, instigate people against the Hindu's and Judaism, now serial blast took place at a prayer meeting in Jehovah's Witnesses in the Kalamassery area of Kerala's Kochi on Sunday morning.
As per the reports one person died and 20 more were injured in the blast. People who were present at the convention centre told media that the first blast occurred in the middle of a prayer.An officer of Kalamassery police said the cause of the blast or whether there was more than one was not confirmed.
State Industries Minister P Rajeev said the blast site is cordoned off and police and fire rescue have been pressed into service. Rajeev said that reportedly few of the injured have suffered serious burns.