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| Southeast Asia |
| Jakarta finds chemical same as used in Bali blasts |
| 2002-12-26 |
| Indonesian police found on Wednesday 250 kilograms of ammonium nitrate - the same material used in the Bali bombings - in Central Sulawesi province that had been hit by bloody religious conflicts in recent years. The chemicals were seized from a car as the world's largest Muslim nation stepped up security on fears over a repeat of the Christmas Eve church bombings two years ago, in which 19 people were killed, and following the October bomb blasts in Bali that left almost 200 people dead, mostly foreigners. ``This fertiliser is usually used as a material to make fish bomb here but the amount is unusually quite large, that's why we will conduct further investigation,'' police spokesman Agus Sugiyanto told Reuters from Palu, capital of Central Sulawesi, a province in the east of the vast archipelago. Sugiyanto said the fertiliser, packaged in 10 sacks, was commonly used by fishermen in the province as a material to build what was known as ``fish bomb'' to catch fish. I guess this means that as well as "elk hunters", we have to add "fishermen" to the Rantburg vocabulary. |
| Posted by:Steve |