Blasts rip through Bali again (2 Viewers)

[Frigid]

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Deadly blasts rip through Bali again

Explosions rocked the Indonesian tourist island of Bali last night, leaving at least 23 people dead and dozens wounded.

Witnesses said they saw body parts, including a severed head and a leg, and hospitals filled with injured.

Many foreigners were among those killed. The Foreign Affairs Minister, Alexander Downer, said at least one Australian was confirmed dead.

The blasts at Jimbaran beach and a bustling outdoor shopping centre in downtown Kuta "were clearly the work of terrorists'', Police Major General Ansyaad Mbai, a top Indonesian anti-terrorism official, told the Associated Press.

Komang, a receptionist at the Graha Asih Hospital, close to Jimbaran Bay, said there were at least eight people in the morgue and that doctors were treating at least 13 wounded.

"It's a horrible scene,'' she said. "Some people have had their heads blown off.''

The bombs went off almost simultaneously at about 7.30pm local time (9.30pm Sydney time).

The blasts hit two restaurants that were packed with foreign and Indonesian diners.

I Wayan Kresna said he witnessed the first bomb at a seafood restaurant on Jimbaran beach. He counted at least two dead and said many others were taken to hospital.

"I helped lift up the bodies,'' he told the privately run El Shinta radio.
"There was blood everywhere.''

The other explosion hit the Raja restaurant in a bustling outdoor shopping centre at Kuta.

All floors of the three-storey building were badly damaged in the blast, an AP reporter at the scene said.

The exact number of blasts was not clear. Some witnesses said they heard at least two explosions at each location, but it was not clear if they were separate blasts or echoes.

Bali police chief general Made Mangu Pastika arrived at the scene last night to tour the area around Raja's bar and restaurant.

The sister of convicted drug smuggler Schapelle Corby told AAP that most of the injured had been taken to Graha Asih Hospital, near Kuta.

Up to four people had died there as she watched, Mercedes Corby said, while between 30 and 40 others had been injured.

Another witness said body parts had littered the area around the Raja restaurant.

"I heard one explosion and ran to Raja's,'' the operations manager of the Matahari Department Store, Marthinus Parera told AAP.

"I ran inside and saw many injured and I found one man's head near the kitchen."

"I also found a leg and a man's body.''

Authorities said several blast victims were moved to Sanglah Hospital in Denpasar, where the Australian Government built a specialist burns unit following the 2002 attacks, blamed on al-Qaeda-linked terror organisation Jemaah Islamiah.

Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono was heading to the island last night, his spokesman said.

"The president strongly condemns this criminal act. At this moment, the president is at the airport (in Jakarta),'' spokesman Andi Mallarangeng told El Shinta radio.

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25 die as terror hits Bali again

AT least 25 people have been killed, including one Australian, in a series of near-simultaneous terrorist bombings on the Indonesian island of Bali.
Unconfirmed reports say the death toll is higher than 30.

Australian Federal Police and US Federal Bureau of Investigation officers are at the bomb sites to inspect the scene.

Foreign Minister Alexander Downer said least three other Australians had been injured in the blasts, warning the number could rise.

Bali's hospitals are reportedly struggling to cope with the number of injured from the blasts, which police say struck seafood restaurants 100m apart in the beachside area of Jimbaran about 7.30pm (9.30pm AEST) yesterday.

Minutes later at least one blast hit the Raja restaurant in Matahari Square in Kuta, a popular late-night shopping area, according to witnesses.

"Tragically we now know that there has been one Australian who has been killed and three others who have been injured," Mr Downer told ABC radio.

"But that is all we have at this stage. We're not sure if there have been other injuries or even fatalities amongst Australians.

"Our consular officials are still working very hard to try to find out."

He warned the number of dead and injured could rise significantly on the figures quoted in initial reports.

"We know from experience the numbers, unfortunately, could turn out to be a good deal higher," Mr Downer said.

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[Atticus.]

i was told about this last night... im worried my mate and his girlfriend are there
his damm phone doesnt work in bali!

 

[Frigid]

Australian boy killedhttp://www.smh.com.au/news/world/australian-boy-killed/2005/10/02/1128191588069.html

Foreign Minister Alexander Downer says a 16-year-old Australian has been killed and at least 17 other Australians injured in a string of bombings in Bali.

Mr Downer said authorities also were gravely concerned about two other Australians.

Of the 17 injured, three are in a serious condition and will be flown to Australia for further treatment today.

Mr Downer said while the bombings were a terrorist attack, it appears Australians were not specifically targeted.

"It doesn't look as though Australians were, I think it's probably rather similar to the Bali bombing of 2002 - there'll be a combination of foreigners being targeted," he told the Seven Network.

"But it's very, very early days, at this stage we're really not quite sure.

"You could assume that this was the action of Jemaah Islamiah or some like organisation, and given that the bombings appear to have been coordinated it seems to be quite clearly a terrorist attack."


Australian couple found injured on beach

An Australian couple has been rushed to hospital, one with a leg wound, the other apparently blinded by one of the terrorists bombings in Bali, a witness says.

Australian freelance photographer Jason Childs said he found the injured couple, from Newcastle north of Sydney, lying on the sand near two bombed restaurants at Jimbaran Beach.

Mr Childs said he, his wife and their friends waited with the couple for an ambulance to arrive.

He said the woman, who gave her name as Jennifer, was covered in blood and had a huge open wound on her leg and was bleeding from shrapnel wounds to her body.

Her husband appeared to have been blinded by the explosion, Mr Childs said. He was bleeding in places but could walk.

Mr Childs said the couple was taken separate ambulances to a hospital, but the woman was first able to speak on the phone to her 16-year-old son Justin.

Mr Childs said the two injured Australians were aged in their late 40s or early 50s.

He also told how another Australian living in Bali, hotel manager Steve Jeisman from Perth, used tables as makeshift stretchers to help carry the wounded to a carpark area behind the bombed cafes.

 

[tasha1188]

Dead bodies and shattered glass in Bali

Bodies lay on the darkened streets amid the shards of shattered glass, their last indignity covered by bloodied blankets.

Nearby lay more, stretched out on the sand or placed roughly on the tables of the fish cafes that were turned into impromptu mortuary slabs by the bombers who ripped apart the night in this seaside jewel of Bali's tourism crown.

Set on an arc of golden sand, the tiny fishing village of Jimbaran is in an idyllic bay on the paradise island of Bali where the local catch is barbecued for romantic dinners.

"We helped a few victims on the sand there on the beach and there were a few people lying on the fish cafes on the tables, which are out on the beach, dead," Australian photographer Jason Childs told Australia's ABC television.

He had been having dinner with family and friends and was now watching as police came with armoured vehicles and dogs.

"I didn't want to walk in there too far, too scared another bomb would go off," he said.

Around the restaurants, police moved slowly among crowds of onlookers and used flashlights to pick their way through the gutted interior.

Until Saturday, when twin blasts ripped through two restaurants on the beachfront, a trip to Jimbaran was a must-do for those wanting to escape the island's most famous beach of Kuta for some relative tranquility.

Kuta, the scene of the 2002 nightclub bombings which left 202 people dead, was once again hit this time in a restaurant just as the busiest time for evening meals.

British tourist Daniel Martin said he was standing in a building next to a restaurant where the blast erupted.

"It was just sheer chaos with no one really taking control," Martin told the BBC, adding that "there were no police or anyone else around for a good while. It was everyone pitching in to help the wounded".

"There were people lying in the street with serious wounds, blood pouring into the street ... I was afraid to go into the actual restaurant for what I might see in there."

The Raja bar and restaurant, a noodle shop popular with tourists, was completely gutted out.

Television images showed a body covered by a bloodied blanket, while in another scene a man cried violently against the side of a van.

Police said the single explosion in Kuta was not as powerful as the two blasts that followed 10 minutes later and 30 kilometres (18 miles) away in Jimbaran.

"The blast there (in Jimbaran) is much stronger because there we found a head that was separated some 50 metres from its body," Senior Police Commissioner Dewa Parsana told journalists in Kuta.

Judging from the timing and the maximum impact of the blasts, he said the bombings were "very well planned."

Indonesian reporter Maria Bakkalupulo told the BBC the area was now mostly empty and no wounded could be seen, but before the blast had been filled with "hundreds and hundreds" of people.

"There's a lot of glass, people just wandering around trying to figure out what's going on at this point," she said.

"Even though it's kind of bizarre, people are trying to continue with the evening. Some restaurants are still open, I think they're just trying to make sense of it. Everyone's in a state of shock."

Martin, the tourist, told ABC there was chaos after the blast in the main square in Kuta.

"There was thick smoke for a few minutes afterwards but there didn't seem to be any fire," he said.

"People were clambering onto the roof of the restaurant. It's about a three storey building so people were climbing out and screaming and jumping down to the street.

"It was pretty harrowing stuff."

Later an AFP journalist visiting the morgue in Sablah hospital in the Balinese capital Denpasar said a whiteboard showed 18 bodies that had been confirmed dead and listed more as yet unidentified body parts.

omg these terror attacks are freaking me dude...why do pplz do this...damn terrorists...poor bali

 

[Slidey]

Yet again it was "in the name of Islam".

 

[Armani]

Will this never end?

 

[erawamai]

Why do people feel the need to measure how big each others gods are?

 

[Italian Hotshot]

Tragic event, I guess it signals the end of Bali. Who would travel there now after everything that has happened in the past 3 years?

 

[studynoob]

damn my aunt and her german boyfriend are holidaying in bali right now! ah they'll be fine!!!

 

[Z_Nizzle]

Yet again it was "in the name of Islam".

well let me be the first to inform you that these actions are absolutely against Islam....so don't go ahead and associate this crap with Islam.

 

[Slidey]

well let me be the first to inform you that these actions are absolutely against Islam....so don't go ahead and associate this crap with Islam.

Whose Islam? There seems to be as many splinter groups in Islam as in Christianity.

These terrorists identify as Muslims. It's about time you realised that whether or not you condone their actions, Islam has got some big problems that it needs to sort out.

Damage Inc: most likely Jemaah Islamiah, which interestingly the Indonesian government refuses to outlaw as a terrorist group.

 

[Sweets]

Whose Islam? There seems to be as many splinter groups in Islam as in Christianity.

These terrorists identify as Muslims. It's about time you realised that whether or not you condone their actions, Islam has got some big problems that it needs to sort out.

Damage Inc: most likely Jemaah Islamiah, which interestingly the Indonesian government refuses to outlaw as a terrorist group.

I agree with your setiment that these are major issues that Muslims have to address, rather then just declaring them as abberations.

I don't think making the terms Muslim and Terrorist interchangable (not that i'm implying that you did), work to achieve anything, rather then just further create a schism.

 

[Bunny04]

God damnit.. more attacks,
my cousins over there.. meep.
This wont end.. with the war supposebly 'on terror' this will never end, and its been made clear, its only a matter of time for when the next will be.
Shit, these attacks... meep.

 

[gordo]

doesn;t islam have a leader like the pope who can tell these morons they are morons

 

[malkin86]

the moderate leaders *are* telling the morons that they're morons... it's only the ones with an axe to grind that are brainwashing the youth that this is what Allah wants.

 

[ur_inner_child]

i'm not the best at knowing all the facts but

WHY BALI!??

 

[Bunny04]

why Bali?
Australians. - If it was aimed at australians like the First 2002 bombings were supposebly based on. (well the aust. govt and Bush seemed to think so)
Tourists...
mainly American and a large portion of Australian tourists flock their- its like the home away from home thing.
Too popular...
Attacks being made against the two countries that are involved in the war against terror- etc.. if they couldn't plan a huge attack on a major city- that would be a place to start.
-shrug-

 

[bitchgirl]

what do terrorists achieve in bombing their own country? they only bring more fear within their own community, make tourists never return to their homeland, economy go down etc, they're not winning a medal for that, its their lost for nothing...

 

[withoutaface]

They don't want money if it comes from whitedevils.

 

[nwatts]

what do terrorists achieve in bombing their own country? they only bring more fear within their own community, make tourists never return to their homeland, economy go down etc, they're not winning a medal for that, its their lost for nothing...

Ah, I think you're missing the point of terrorism.

You are speaking like they actually have brains to be able to comprehend and compute what you are saying. Any normal human would be able to see this. They aren't normal, nor are they humans.

We have suicide gorillas now?