'People's heads blown off'

2005-10-01 17:01

Bali - Bombs went off almost simultaneously in Saturday in two tourist areas of the Indonesian resort island of Bali, killing at least eight people and wounding 13 others, police and hospital officials said. Foreign tourists were among the victims.

The blasts at Jimbaran beach and a bustling outdoor shopping center in downtown Kuta "were clearly the work of terrorists," major general Ansyaad Mbai, a top Indonesian anti-terrorism official, told The Associated Press.

Komang, a receptionist at the Graha Asih Hospital, close to Jimbaran Bay, said there were at least eight people in the morgue and that doctors were treating at least 13 wounded.

"It's a horrible scene," she said. "Some people have had their heads blown off."

- SAPA