FILE: File footage show the aftermath of the 2002 bombing in Bali, Indonesia, killing 202 people

Record ID: 357542

  • Title: FILE: File footage show the aftermath of the 2002 bombing in Bali, Indonesia, killing 202 people
  • Date: 8th October 2012
  • Summary: JAKARTA, INDONESIA (JUNE 21, 2012) (REUTERS) VARIOUS EXTERIORS OF JAKARTA COURT CONVICTED BOMB MAKER UMAR PATEK GETTING OUT OF VEHICLE/ MEDIA FILMING PATEK ENTERING COURT ROOM MEDIA FILMING VARIOUS OF PATEK LISTENING TO JUDGE SPEAKING
  • Embargoed: 23rd October 2012 13:00
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  • Location: Indonesia
  • Country: Indonesia
  • Topics: Crime
  • Reuters ID: LVAUO4MSU2IU8VMKYNQNQHBO7AZ
  • Story Text: On October 12, 2002, 202 people were killed in a series of bombs that went off in Indonesia's tourist island of Bali.
    The almost simultaneous blasts late at night in the teeming main Kuta Beach tourist district, which is lined with clubs and bars, came at a time of growing security concern in the world's most populous Muslim nation.
    Many of those dead were foreign tourists, including 88 Australians.
    Video footage showed fire blazing through popular night-clubs, with bodybags lining the street the next day.
    After the bombings, security forces detained nearly 600 militants, most of whom have been jailed. Three main perpetrators of the bombings, Imam Samudra and brothers Amrozi and Mukhlas, were convicted and executed by a firing squad in 2008.
    In June 2012, a court in Jakarta sentenced Umar Patek to 20 years in jail for making the bombs that went off in the blasts.
    Indonesia has since been largely successful in containing militant attacks and there have been no large-scale attacks on Western targets since 2009 when suicide bombers blew themselves up in two Jakarta hotels, killing nine people and wounding 53.
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