Kochi: A woman undergoing treatment after suffering 80 per cent burns in the Kalamassery blasts died on Monday morning taking death toll to four.
The latest person to die in the blasts is Molly Joy, a resident of Kalamassery. She was undergoing treatment at the Ernakulam Medical Center.
With this, the death toll following the incident rose to four. Other deceased are Leyona Paulose (55), Kumari Pushpan (53) and Libina (12). Multiple blasts rocked the Zamra International Convention and Exhibition Centre at Kalamassery where the followers of the minority Christian group Jehovah's Witnesses had gathered for the final day of a three-day-long prayer meeting on October 29.
A few hours after the incident, Dominic Martin, who claimed to be a member of Jehovah's Witnesses, surrendered before police in Kodakara, Thrissur, conessing to the crime. Police have recovered some visuals from his phone to prove his involveent.
Martin reportedly placed the explosives in six places inside the hall with the aim of killing the participants of the Jehovah's Witnesses convention. He claimed that he vowed to end the Jehovah's Witnesses group as its ideology was dangerous for the country.
