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Titolo: [NEWS] esplosione a BALI

Saturday, 12 October, 2002, 20:05 GMT 21:05 UK 
Explosions rock Bali
Reports from the Indonesian holiday island of Bali say at least 25
people have been killed in a two explosions. 
Ten foreigners are believed to be among the dead, and more than 100
people were injured - among them Americans, Australians and five
Britons. 
One of the bombs exploded at a nightclub in Kuta Beach, a popular
tourist resort. 
The other explosion occurred in central Denpasar, Bali's capital, a
police spokesman has said. 
This explosion is reported to have gone off 250 metres (825 feet) from
the United States consulate in the city. 
There is no firm word on the cause of the explosions but the local
police say bomb squad officers are investigating. 
Chaos and damage 
Bali is a popular holiday resort with western tourists. 
Eyewitnesses described chaos and extensive damage at Kuta Beach, where
the deaths are reported to have occurred. 
It has been reported a fire is still burning inside the club and the
emergency services have had difficulties reaching the scene due to
massive traffic jams in the area. 
One witness reported hearing three explosions. 
Embassy worries 
The US embassy in Jakarta has issued a series of warnings in recent
weeks that its nationals could be targeted by Islamic militants linked
to the al-Qaeda terror group. 
The embassy itself closed for several days last month after
intelligence reports indicated militant groups were planning car bomb
attacks. 
BBC Jakarta correspondent Richard Galpin says the embassy has been
considering evacuating non-essential staff because of continuing fears
of attack. 
BBC NEWS (World / Asia Pacific)

Guarda che questa notizia l'abbiamo vista (ed in italiano) su tutti i TG
italiani senza bisogno che la BBC si degnasse di informarcene

 italiani senza bisogno che la BBC si degnasse di informarcene
parla per te... io la televisione non la accendo quasi mai, e la notizia 
l'ho ricevuta con un sms via ANSA... quindi in poco piů di 100 caratteri 
non potevano esserci tutte queste info.
grazie nb, ciao.
-- 
Marco Z.
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Ad integrazione, sembra  ci siano anche italiani tra le vittime
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A British tourist is among at least 180 people killed in a devastating
bomb blast in the Kuta resort on the island of Bali. 
Hospital officials estimate that 75% of the dead were foreigners,
among them Australians and Germans, with at least another 210 reported
injured. 
Helpline numbers  
British Consulate: 00 62 361270601 
Foreign Office: 0207 0080000  
Another bomb went off near the US consulate in Bali's capital Denpasar
but no one was reported injured. 
The British Consulate in Bali has set up a 24-hour telephone number
for people anxious about relatives or friends in Kuta. 
The Home Office said the dead Briton's family had been informed. 
No one has claimed responsibility for the attacks, but the US embassy
in Jakarta had recently issued warnings of possible attacks by Islamic
militants linked to al-Qaeda. 
Travel warning 
The British Ambassador in Jakarta Richard Gozney says anyone planning
to travel to Bali or Indonesia should defer their visit. 
"There is still a risk of this sort of thing, or something smaller,
occurring," he said. 
"We all fear this was a terrorist attack linked to an extremist group,
but we can't say that much at this stage." 
We managed to climb over people and over a concrete wall and along the
street, which was full of glass and debris and people screaming 
 
Kevin Mattocks  
The Foreign Office said 18 British nationals were injured in the Bali
explosions. Twelve have since been discharged from hospital. 
A nurse at the Denpasar hospital said most of those treated were
Australian but there were also tourists from Britain, Germany, New
Zealand, Italy and France. 
She said injuries ranged from burns to broken legs. 
Reports say the explosion was caused by a car bomb outside the Sari
Club, a nightspot popular with Western tourists in Kuta. 
 
Tourist Kevin Mattocks, in Bali with cousin, said he was in Irish pub
Paddy's Bar, in the same area, when the blast happened. 
"There were two explosions," he said. 
"The first one was on the opposite side to us, which made us go to the
floor. 
"It was a pillar that saved us from the second blast." 
Bloody scene 
Mr Mattocks said he could not walk because of his injuries, and had a
constant ringing in his ears. 
"I've suffered injuries to my right and left leg because I jumped over
the wall to get away," he said. 
 
The Kuta area is popular with tourists
 
"I didn't know what else was going to happen." 
British tourist Matt Noyce, who was also in Paddy's Bar, said the
bloody scene of injured and dead after the explosion was like
something out of a Vietnam film. 
"At one stage somebody had a taxi or a truck and people were loading
bodies into the truck, it was that bad," he said. 
"You couldn't really see you couldn't tell who was the worst injured,
it was just chaos, it was horrible." 
Bali paradise 
Hundreds of thousands of tourists flock to Bali every year for the
idyllic tropical beaches, deep blue sea and lush green forests. 
The resort of Kuta is packed with bars, restaurants and nightclubs and
has Bali's biggest tourist beach. 
But head of corporate affairs for the Association of British Travel
Agents (Abta), Keith Batton, advised travellers to avoid public places
like nightclubs until the reason for the attack is identified. 
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 Ad integrazione, sembra  ci siano anche italiani tra le vittime
Per fortuna adesso sembra di no.........
13-OTT 08:39  Attentato Bali: 182 morti e 132 feriti; polizia,e' 
autobomba; Nessun italiano risulta fra le vittime,4 feriti gia' dimessi
(ANSA) - ROMA, 13 OTT - Nessun italiano risulta vittima nell'attentato 
nell'isola indonesiana di Bali, a quanto ha detto telefonicamente 
l'ambasciata a Giakarta alle 08:30. Quattro italiani erano rimasti 
feriti nell'attentato, ma sono gia' stati dimessi, ha aggiunto la fonte. 
Intanto, sale il bilancio delle vittime: sono 182 (e 132 i feriti) a 
quanto ha riferito la presidente indonesiana Megawati Sukarnoputri. Ci 
sono dei dispersi. Secondo la polizia, si e' trattato di un'autobomba.
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 grazie nb, ciao.
Neppure io guardo i telegiornali... io mi leggo i notiziari in rete.
A me è entrata come ho acceso il pc rientrato dopo una giornata in una
"fiera" di operatori turistici... dove ho visto che Bali ERA una delle
mete più pubblicizzate.
Da poco avevano fatto pure dei voli charter...
E visto che avevo letto parecchi post che consigliavano Bali, mi
sembrava opportuno riportarla...
Stamattina leggo che ormai i morti sono più di 180, la maggior parte
australiani, tedeschi ed inglesi.... ci sono degli italiani feriti.
Quindi l'attentato mirava proprio a colpire il turismo, la maggior
risorsa di Bali, l'unica zona non islamica di tutta l'Indonesia.
Leggo pure che l'ambasciata americana aveva parlato giorni fa di
possibilità di attentati.
Ma a chi l'aveva detto ????
:((((
ciao
nb 
P.S. "plaunad" qualsiasi cosa sia inglese non gli piace... altrimenti
sarebbe stato zitto.
;-DDDDDDDD

Bali death toll 
climbs to 182
From our 
news.com.au
 network staff reporters and wires 
13oct02
TERRORISTS were today blamed for a huge bomb that killed at least 182
people as it ripped through two bars packed with foreign tourists,
including many Australians, on the Indonesian resort island of Bali.
More than 300 people were injured in the attack. 
Indonesian Police Chief General Da'i Bachtiar said today the explosion
was a car bomb placed in a Kijang, a jeep-like vehicle, and called it
the worst act of terrorism in Indonesia's history. 
President Megawati Sukarnoputri has flown to Bali and a security alert
was declared nationwide. Security Minister Susilo Bamban Yudhyono said
strategic targets, like liquefied natural gas plants, "will be
protected". 
There was no claim of responsibility for the bombing in the Sari Club
at the Kuta Beach resort, which officials said killed Indonesians
along with Australians, Germans, Canadians, Britons, and Swedes. 
More than 300 people were injured, at least 90 of them critically,
officials said. 
Authorities said a second bomb exploded near the island's US consular
office. Police said there were no casualties in the second explosion.
The US Embassy's recreation club in the Indonesian capital, Jakarta,
was evacuated today after a bomb threat. 
The blasts came three days after the US State Department issued a
worldwide alert for terror attacks and highlighted fears by the United
States and others that Indonesia - the most populous Muslim nation -
is becoming a haven for terrorists and that al-Qaeda operatives are
active. 
Mrs Megawati said 182 people were killed and 132 injured, but hospital
officials in Bali said that 309 were hurt, about 90 of them
critically. 
The first bomb late yesterday destroyed the Sari Club, a popular
nightspot frequented by foreigners in the resort of Kuta Beach. The
explosion at the consular office occurred almost simultaneously. 
The blast left a large crater at the entrance to the nightclub, in the
centre of Kuta, Bali's biggest tourist area with a maze of clubs,
restaurants, shops, hotels and beach bungalows. It caters to a younger
tourists and surfers. 
The blast ignited a huge blaze - apparently caused by exploding gas
cylinders - which collapsed the flimsy roof structure, trapping
hundreds of revellers inside. 
Bali Police Chief Brig General Budi Setyawan said that most of the
victims were Australian tourists. 
Australian tourist Rachael Hughes, 18, said she and her boyfriend had
just arrived in Kuta Beach when the blast ripped through the
nightclub, smashing the window of their hotel room. 
"Looking outside ... people are yelling and screaming, they are all
going: 'They are all going to die,'" she told Channel Seven. 
"Standing in the foyer of the Bounty Hotel, people were just walking
in, blood dripping off them, burns to their face, skin coming off
them." 
Police had no immediate motive for the blasts. 
In September, the US Embassy in Jakarta was closed for six days due to
what US Ambassador Ralph Boyce called a "credible and specific threat"
that he suggested was linked to the al-Qaeda terror network. 
Other embassies in the region were also closed, and officials in the
Philippines said they had received warnings from the US government
that terrorists were feared to be preparing truck bombs. 
Last month, a hand grenade exploded in a car near a house belonging to
the US Embassy in Jakarta, killing the man suspected of handling it. 
Authorities in Malaysia and Singapore have alleged that members of
Jemaah Islamiyah - a group said to be seeking to set up an Islamic
state in Southeast Asia - are based in Indonesia. 
Singapore has been pressing Indonesia to arrest Jemaah Islamiyah's
alleged leader, Abu Bakar Bashir, who lives in Indonesia. But
Indonesian officials say they have no evidence against him. 
The Sari Club explosion and fire damaged about 20 other buildings on
the same block. Twenty cars were either destroyed or badly damaged. 
Wayan Putra, a driver at the nearby Poppies hotel, said that after the
blast, hundreds of townspeople rushed toward the nightclub but could
not get close because of the intense flames. 
Dozens of injured were evacuated by mo-ped drivers who normally ferry
tourists from one part of the resort to another. Ambulances also
arrived and the blaze was extinguished several hours later. 
"It was horrible. I am devastated. Bali has always, always been safe.
We depend on tourism for our livelihood. Our name has been smeared by
this horrible blast," Mr Putra said. 
Australia's Qantas airline scheduled an extra flight to Bali today to
evacuate Australians. Bali is Indonesia's top tourist destination. 
Although Indonesia has been wracked by ethnic and religious violence
since the overthrow four years ago of former dictator Suharto, Bali
itself has remained quiet. Unlike the rest of Indonesia, which is
almost 85 per cent Muslim, Bali itself is predominantly Hindu. 
AP
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Bali exodus beginning
By Victor Tjahjadi 
13oct02
FOREIGNERS are waiting anxiously at Bali international airport for a
flight home as a potentially devastating exodus began building up
following the horrendous bomb attack on two bars packed with tourists,
many of them Australian.
Italian tourist Simone Tedeschi said he was at the Sari Club on Bali's
famous tourist drag in Kuta last night when the huge car bomb went
off, killing at least 182 people.
"God still bless me I'm still alive," said Tedeschi, who suffered cuts
and bruises on his arms and legs.
"I'm very afraid. I was going to stay here for 20 days but I'm leaving
after just one week," he said.
Jeppe Lindqvist, a surfer from Sweden, said he was having dinner with
seven friends at a restaurant only 30 metres from the scene of the
explosion.
"I heard a loud bang and the roof of the restaurant caved in," he
said.
Lindqvist said it would be a long time until he decided to return to
Bali for a holiday, or "probably never".
"People said that Bali is the safest place for tourists but I can't
rely on that anymore," he said, adding that he would have to wait for
12 hours before getting a flight home.
The explosion destroyed the bars in the tourist district and triggered
an intense blaze which burned for hours as rescuers struggled to
rescue injured people.
Many Australians were among the casualties and the country's foreign
minister, Alexander Downer, said it appeared the blast was a terrorist
attack and he pointed the finger of suspicion at al-Qaeda.
Bali receives hundreds of thousands of tourists from Australia, Europe
and the United States every year, and local hoteliers fear the attack
will leave the local tourism industry in ruins.
"This is at the very heart of Bali's tourist district, it is simply
disastrous for us," the chairman of the Bali chapter of the Indonesian
Hotel and Restaurant Association (PHRI), I Gede Wiratha, told AFP.
Garuda Indonesia president Indra Setiawan said the Indonesian state
airline was making several aircraft available to help any evacuation
efforts from Bali if necessary.
"We are ready if we are asked to help the evacuation," Setiawan told
the Elshinta private radio station before flying to Bali.
He said reports he received showed that there was an increase in
demand for flight seats out of Bali early today, but he attributed the
demand to "initial panic".
Setiawan said his airline was ready, if asked, to provide planes to
evacuate people from Bali to Jakarta or other destinations abroad.
"But the priority would be for the victims," he said.
Qantas Airways today announced extra flights to ferry home Australians
from Bali.
The airline's chief executive Geoff Dixon said the airline was also
flying in additional staff to help meet the needs of Australians in
Bali and laying on extra flights for those eager to return home.
Many of those killed and injured on the popular resort island are
believed to be Australians.
Indonesian police spokesman Suyatmo said earlier today that police had
tightened surveillance at the main points of entry and exit on the
island, including the airport.
National Police spokesman Saleh Saaf said in Jakarta that the
heightened surveillance was aimed at "reducing the moving space of the
perpetrators".
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Un sito con parecchie info da Bali:
http://www.indo.com/bali121002/
Nella lista delle vittime danno un italiano...
http://www.indo.com/bali121002/mourning2.html
:((
Però l'ambasciata italiana e altre fonti non danno vittime italiane...
nb

 nb
tra l'altro non mi pare Fillali sia un cognome Italiano !
Steve
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