Another body found, one victim dies<\/p>\n
Rita A. Widiadana, The Jakarta Post, Kuta, Bali<\/p>\n
A team of investigators found another dead body and parts of
\nhuman hands at the bomb site in what was formerly Sari Club in
\nLegian, Kuta, while one critical victim being treated at Sanglah
\nGeneral Hospital died of complications on Thursday afternoon.<\/p>\n
Endang, 35, an Indonesian who suffered serious burns from the
\nblast and had been in critical condition, died at Sanglah's
\nintensive care unit.<\/p>\n
Her death brought the number of people killed in the blast to
\n184, said Dr. Ketut Suarjaya, head of the crisis center at the
\nhospital.<\/p>\n
At present 41 victims are still being treated in Bali, 31 of
\nthem at Sanglah, the remaining 10 at six private hospitals in
\nDenpasar, said head of Sanglah medical team Dr. Cakra Wibawa
\nManuaba.<\/p>\n
Five of the patients are foreigners and all are suffering
\nserious burns, he added.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, identification of the bodies has been very slow, it
\ncould take months to complete formal identification of all
\nvictims of the Bali bombing and some may never be identified, the
\nhead of the team handling the process said on Thursday.<\/p>\n
Although some victims had been identified visually,
\ninternational protocols required that identification be by DNA,
\ndental records or fingerprints, Australian Federal Police officer
\nJulian Slater said, as quoted by AFP.<\/p>\n
He said because of the complexities of the process and the
\nprotocols involved he could not speculate on how long it would
\ntake, even in the simpler cases.<\/p>\n
\"Until this process is complete, I think it could take
\nmonths,\" he told a news conference here.<\/p>\n
\"That is not to say it will be months before people are
\nidentified, but we are still actually examining the scene and the
\nremains of victims are still being recovered.<\/p>\n
\"It is an extraordinarily long process and something that we
\ncannot carry out any faster.\"<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, thousands of people flocked to a nearby site on
\nThursday to pay their respects to those killed in the bombing and
\nto hold religious ceremonies.<\/p>\n
The provincial government of Bali is still waiting for the
\ninvestigation team to complete its task before it can clean up
\nthe debris at the site.<\/p>\n
\"We have been cooperating with state-owned electricity company
\nPT PLN, state-owned telecommunications company PT Telkom and the
\ncity-owned water company to clear the site to make way for a
\nreconstruction project,\" said a spokesman at the governor's
\noffice.<\/p>\n
The Bali government has set aside special funds for the
\nreconstruction of the area damaged in the bombing. The central
\ngovernment has promised to hand over Rp 500 billion for
\nrefurbishment and compensation for residents and businesspeople
\naffected by the incident.<\/p>\n
The Ministry of Social Affairs has allocated a compensation
\nfund of around Rp 1 billion. Owners of destroyed buildings are to
\nreceive Rp 5 million each while families of the deceased will get
\nRp 3 million each.<\/p>\n
The spokesman went on to say that the local government was
\nfacing difficulty in finding dump sites for the debris from
\nLegian.<\/p>\n
\"The Balinese people view the debris as leteh, spiritually
\ndirty,\" he explained.<\/p>\n
He said the provincial government would consult first with a
\nnumber of High Hindu Priests and traditional leaders on the
\nisland to decide the location of the dump sites.<\/p>\n
A major ceremony will be held on Nov. 15 in Legian. After the
\nmajor ceremony, there will be a special pilgrimage to sprinkle
\nholy water of Nunas Tirta on several mountains, namely Bromo,
\nRaung, Arjuna and Dieng in Central Java and Mount Rinjani in
\nLombok island.<\/p>\n
At a media conference held by Bali Tourism Community at Hard
\nRock Hotel in Kuta, officials from Garuda Indonesia airlines
\npromised to provide two free around-the-world tickets for each
\nvictim's family if they participated in the coming ceremony.<\/p>\n
The Association of Hotels and Restaurants in Bali is also
\nproviding hotel rooms free of charge for three days for families
\nof victims who want to take care of matters related to the Kuta
\nbombing.<\/p>",
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