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| Southeast Asia |
| Blasts hit Bali cafe's |
| 2005-10-01 |
| Explosions rocked two cafes on the Indonesian island of Bali on Saturday, police said. Witnesses said they saw at least three foreigners being assisted by locals following a blast in the Jimbaran Bay beach area, which houses a number of restaurants. One blast was at a cafe on Jimbaran beach and the other in Kuta town square, police official Suwita said from the island's headquarters. Local TV said there had been three blasts. "I don't know now about the number of victims or casualties. We're still busy collecting data," Suwita said. Peter Holden of Gosford on the central coast of New South Wales says he received an SMS message from his daughter Donna, who lives in Bali, telling him about the explosions. Mr Holden says his daughter has reported several fatalities. "There have been at least two bombs gone off in Jimbaran in restaurants and those kind of restaurants are restaurants populated by tourists in the main," Mr Holden said. "And then a more recent report just a moment ago that there's also reports of another bomb in Kuta Square. That's a pretty busy tourist area," he said. In October 2002, 202 people were killed, many of them Australians, and more than 200 injured in a series of terrorist blasts in Bali's tourist areas. |
| Posted by:Oztralian [AKA] God Save The World |
| #2 Stay safe, Igster, and keep us informed. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2005-10-01 20:46 |
| #1 truly sickening, I was peacefully enjoying a nice drink at the Raja only on Thursday |
| Posted by: Igster 2005-10-01 20:28 |