One Dead, Eight Hurt in Blasts at LDF Victory Rallies in Kerala

CPI(M) claims that RSS workers were behind the blast.

CPI(M) supporters celebrate the party’s win in a rally in Kannur, Kerala on 19 May 2016.(Photo: IANS)

• One person was killed and eight others injured when two bombs were hurled at separate CPI(M)-led LDF’s victory rallies in Kerala’s Kannur district on 19 May
  
• CPI(M) alleged that some RSS-BJP workers came in a vehicle and hurled a bomb at Pinarayi in Dharmadam assembly segment from where CPI(M) politburo member Pinarayi Vijayan won.
  
• One person identified as Raveendran (47) died and four others were injured when a bomb exploded at Dharmadam, the police said.

• In another incident at Mattannur, a bomb was hurled at a victory rally in which four CPI(M) workers were injured. Clashes have also been reported in Kasargod as well, where police has imposed prohibitory orders.
  
• CPI(M) denounced the “murderous attacks launched by the RSS”and demanded that the RSS attackers must be immediately be brought to book.

(With agency inputs)