From CNA:
JAKARTA : Two near simultaneous explosions went off Saturday in the popular Indonesian resort island of Bali with at least three foreigners reported injured, police and radio reports said Saturday.
The first explosion occurred at 1200 GMT in the Jimbaran area of Bali in front of beachside coffee shops, local policeman Nyoman Suwita told AFP.
Minutes later another blast also took place in front of coffee shops at the Matahari Square shopping center in the popular beach resort area of Kuta, Suwita said.
Witnesses said they saw at least three foreigners being assisted by locals following the blast in the beach area which houses a lot of restaurants, ElShinta radio reported.
"The explosion in Bali is reported to have taken place in a very crowded area, so if obviously it is confirmed to be a bomb, then it is aimed at causing as much casualties and ... as many victims as possible," foreign ministry spokesman Marty Natalegawa told the BBC.
"At this time we are very much trying to secure the area, and trying to save those who have been injured," he said, adding that the two blasts occurred about 10 minutes apart.
Bali suffered bomb attacks on two popular Kuta nightclubs on October 12, 2002 that killed 202 people, many of them foreign tourists including 88 Australians, and injured hundreds of others.
Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono had called for tighter security in the world's most populous Muslim nation during September and October, saying these appeared to be favoured months for terror acts.
He said the possibility of more attacks remained real since two of the key bombers accused of being behind the Bali attacks, Malaysians Azahari Husin and Noordin Mohammad Top, remain on the loose.
Both are believed to have played key roles in the Bali bombings, the August 2003 bomb blast at the Marriott hotel in Jakarta and the suicide van bomb blast in front of the Australian embassy in September.
All the attacks are blamed on Jemaah Islamiyah which is believed to be the Southeast Asian arm of Osama bin Laden's Al-Qaeda network.
Three militants have been sentenced to death for their part in the Bali bombings and two others are serving life sentences for the attacks.
- AFP /ct
JAKARTA : Two near simultaneous explosions went off Saturday in the popular Indonesian resort island of Bali with at least three foreigners reported injured, police and radio reports said Saturday.
The first explosion occurred at 1200 GMT in the Jimbaran area of Bali in front of beachside coffee shops, local policeman Nyoman Suwita told AFP.
Minutes later another blast also took place in front of coffee shops at the Matahari Square shopping center in the popular beach resort area of Kuta, Suwita said.
Witnesses said they saw at least three foreigners being assisted by locals following the blast in the beach area which houses a lot of restaurants, ElShinta radio reported.
"The explosion in Bali is reported to have taken place in a very crowded area, so if obviously it is confirmed to be a bomb, then it is aimed at causing as much casualties and ... as many victims as possible," foreign ministry spokesman Marty Natalegawa told the BBC.
"At this time we are very much trying to secure the area, and trying to save those who have been injured," he said, adding that the two blasts occurred about 10 minutes apart.
Bali suffered bomb attacks on two popular Kuta nightclubs on October 12, 2002 that killed 202 people, many of them foreign tourists including 88 Australians, and injured hundreds of others.
Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono had called for tighter security in the world's most populous Muslim nation during September and October, saying these appeared to be favoured months for terror acts.
He said the possibility of more attacks remained real since two of the key bombers accused of being behind the Bali attacks, Malaysians Azahari Husin and Noordin Mohammad Top, remain on the loose.
Both are believed to have played key roles in the Bali bombings, the August 2003 bomb blast at the Marriott hotel in Jakarta and the suicide van bomb blast in front of the Australian embassy in September.
All the attacks are blamed on Jemaah Islamiyah which is believed to be the Southeast Asian arm of Osama bin Laden's Al-Qaeda network.
Three militants have been sentenced to death for their part in the Bali bombings and two others are serving life sentences for the attacks.
- AFP /ct
From the looks of it, it is never going to cease.