October 3, 2005
Phone calls may have triggered suicide bombs
Mobile phone calls from three accomplices might have triggered the explosives carried by three suicide bombers in Saturday's Bali terror attacks, according to The Sydney Morning Herald.
"Police are scrutinising an amateur video tape of a man apparently with a backpack entering a restaurant before one of three blasts which killed as many as 26 people and wounded 122.
Police say a likely scenario was that three suicide bombers walked into the three targeted restaurants.
Three accomplices stationed nearby then called mobile phones rigged to explosives carried in by the bombers.
The calls would have instantly triggered the bombs, said Indonesian anti-terror official Major General Ansyaad Mbai, who added that the three accomplices might still be on Bali.
.. Hospital officials have said the wounded included 64 Indonesians, 20 Australians, seven South Koreans, four Americans, three Japanese, one French, and one German, with other nationalities unknown".
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