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Sunday, October 02, 2005

Bali Bombed... again.

KUTA, Indonesia, Oct. 2 - Three suicide bombers carried out the coordinated terror attacks on crowded restaurants in Bali Saturday night, Indonesian officials said today.

They said this conclusion was based largely on the discovery of three heads severed from bodies, one at Raja's restaurant on a busy street in Kuta, a popular beach resort and tourist area in Bali, and two in the sand among the wooden tables on the beach at Jimbaran, five miles south of Kuta.

In the first 24 hours after the attacks, the police have made striking progress, in part owing to some macabre luck: the blasts did not obliterate the faces of the suspected suicide bombers, leaving the police with vivid pictures, which they displayed at a news conference here this evening.

Earlier today, the police were given a video, shot by a visiting family, that showed an Indonesian man with a backpack and wearing blue jeans walking past a blonde woman on the street and a little girl. It then captures him walking into the back of Raja's restaurant, before the bright flash of the explosion goes off.

Besides the suicide bombers, 19 people were killed in the attacks, the Bali police chief, Made Pastika, said at the news conference here, a revision downward from the figure given by authorities earlier in the day. Fourteen were Indonesians, five were foreigners, Mr. Pastika said. More than 90 were injured, nearly all of them Indonesian.

The only Americans known to have been injured were seven members of a family from San Francisco, who were eating in Raja's restaurant when the bomb went off. They were being treated in the hospital here today and Indonesian officials said they were expected to be released on Monday.

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