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| Aussie has amateur footage of Bali bombing |
| 2005-10-03 |
| An Australian tourist who filmed an explosion in a Bali restaurant only realised he had footage of a suicide bomber when he rewatched his tape, he said today. Garry Shaw, from Bateman's Bay on the NSW south coast, was walking past busy Raja's Restaurant in Kuta Square with his family at the time of the blast. Mr Shaw's footage shows a man with a white top, dark jeans and a backpack over his shoulder rushing into the restaurant seconds before a big bang. An emotional Mr Shaw said he had set his camera on the restaurant after his daughter made an jokey comment about one of the diners. "As we do on every other family holiday, we (were) just videoing the family walking along the street and for some reason my daughter made a comment on somebody in the restaurant looking like Cleopatra," Mr Shaw told Channel Ten. "So I've turned the camera to my left as I've walked (and) I've just kept it going left right through the whole restaurant." The family video captured the explosion but didn't realise they also had images of the suspected suicide bomber until later, he said. "We realised when we got home and watched it back that we got the whole lot on (the) footage," said Mr Shaw, who suffered minor injuries from flying metal. "At the time we didn't realise what had happened, the explosion was all we realised, until we watched it a few times over ... ." Mr Shaw's videotape is one of at least two being studied by Balinese investigators following the near simultaneous blasts at three busy Bali restaurants. |
| Posted by:Dan Darling |
| #1 Got it. Not that illustrative. You do see the filthy terrorist, but he walks off camera several seconds before the blast. No detail; just him walking across the room. You do see the orange blast a bit, but again with no detail. Not worth the download, IMOH. |
| Posted by: Mark E 2005-10-03 15:00 |