Shashi Tharoor condemns Kerala blast, says 'destruction tragic… state falling prey to mentality of killing’
ANI. Those injured have been admitted to Government Medical College Hospital in Kalamassery and in private hospitals. In another update, sources have told ANI that an eight member National Security Guard (NSG) team rushed one of its bomb disposal units from Delhi to Kerala to collect and inquire about the materials used in the explosion.
The disposal unit was moved after Union Home Minister Amit Shah issued direction to the chief of the elite force to send one of its team to the explosion site and start the probe. DGP Shaik Darvesh Saheb has said that the blast was caused due to an improvised explosive device (IED). Recounting the shocking experience, a senior woman told PTI that, "when I opened my eyes after hearing the first blast, all I saw was a fireball in front of me.
Nothing...nothing more...just a fireball. Everybody ran scattered here and there. It was a sprawling hall, and a large number of people were inside." A man in his 70s described the shock and siad he had never witnessed anything like this before.
He said, “I was standing at the side of the hall, praying with my eyes closed. Suddenly, a shocking blast was heard from nearby. I saw only fire around and ran to the door along with others." “In all his years of attending the convention the attendee had never witnessed anything like this before," he said.
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