{"id":8103,"date":"2023-12-07T23:04:19","date_gmt":"2023-12-07T20:04:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/?p=8103"},"modified":"2023-12-07T23:04:19","modified_gmt":"2023-12-07T20:04:19","slug":"death-toll-in-keralas-kalamassery-blasts-rises-to-eight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/death-toll-in-keralas-kalamassery-blasts-rises-to-eight\/","title":{"rendered":"Death toll in Kerala&#8217;s Kalamassery blasts rises to eight"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"straptxt article_summary\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Lilly&#8217;s husband, K A John (77), had previously passed away in the blast on December\u00a02. Hospital sources reported that Lily suffered a cardiac arrest leading\u00a0to her demise.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-8104\" src=\"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/rYOChaN.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1250\" height=\"732\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/rYOChaN.jpeg 1250w, https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/rYOChaN-750x439.jpeg 750w, https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/rYOChaN-300x176.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/rYOChaN-768x450.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1250px) 100vw, 1250px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">KOCHI:\u00a0The death toll from the series of blasts in Kalamassery during a Jehovah&#8217;s Witnesses\u00a0prayer meeting on October 29 has now climbed to eight. The latest victim,\u00a0Lilly John (76), a native of Thodupuzha &#8211; Vandamattom, succumbed to burn injuries on\u00a0Saturday evening at Aster Medcity.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Lilly&#8217;s husband, K A John (77), had previously passed away in the blast on December\u00a02. Hospital sources reported that Lily suffered a cardiac arrest leading\u00a0to her demise. The death was confirmed around 3 am. Lily John, survived by her three\u00a0children &#8211; Lijo, Liji, and Linto, hailed from Thodupuzha.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Other victims of the tragic incident include Leona Paulose (55) from Iringol,\u00a0Perumbavoor; Kumari (52) from Kaliyar, Thodupuzha; Moly Joy (61) from\u00a0Kalamassery, and Malayattoor natives Praveen Pradeepan (24), Libna (12), and Saly\u00a0Pradeepan (45).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">During the multiple blasts at the international convention centre in Kalamassery, over 50 people were injured, some seriously.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A few hours after the incident, a man named Dominic Martin, claiming to be an estranged member of Jehovah&#8217;s Witnesses, surrendered before the police in Thrissur district, asserting that he carried out the multiple blasts.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lilly&#8217;s husband, K A John (77), had previously passed away in the blast on December\u00a02. Hospital sources reported that Lily suffered a cardiac arrest leading\u00a0to her demise. KOCHI:\u00a0The death toll from the series of blasts&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8104,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[60],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-india"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8103","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8103"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8103\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8105,"href":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8103\/revisions\/8105"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8104"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}