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Delhi on high alert after Kochi blasts
The Morning Standard
|October 30, 2023
THE police in the national capital went on a high alert on Sunday following blasts during a prayer meeting organised by Jehovah's Witnesses at a convention centre near Kochi in Kerala. "Necessary measures have been put in place," said a senior Delhi Police officer.
Three successive explosions were reported from the prayer meeting leaving one dead, and injuring another 36 people.
This story is from the October 30, 2023 edition of The Morning Standard.
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