Kerala CM flays attack on Syrian church head

Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan on Monday condemned the attack on Patriarch Ignatius Aphrem II, head of the Syrian Orthodox church, who had a narrow escape when a suicide bomber blew himself up at a function attended by the religious leader in Syria.

The incident took place on Sunday when the Patriarch, supreme leader of the Syrian churches, including the Jacobite church in Kerala, was leading a prayer meeting commemorating the massacre of Christians over a century ago in north east Syria.