Police in India have arrested a man in connection with a series of explosions at a Jehovah’s Witnesses meeting in the southern state of Kerala.
The blasts took place during the last day of a prayer session organised by Jehovah’s Witnesses in the town of Kalamassery, about 10km (six miles) north-east of the port city of Kochi (Cochin).
Hours after the explosions, Mr Martin posted a video on Facebook claiming to be a former member of the Jehovah’s Witnesses who planned the blasts because he was angry with the group’s teachings.
“We are convinced that he committed the crime based on his confession and corroborating pieces of evidence we collected,” Kochi city police commissioner A Akbar said on Monday.
The Jehovah’s Witnesses is a religious movement which believes that traditional Christian churches have deviated from the actual teachings of the Bible and Armageddon is imminent.
Queen Richard, a member of Jehovah’s Witnesses who was in the hall when the bomb exploded, said she initially thought a short circuit had caused the explosion.
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