Body parts of victims to be cremated

Body parts of victims to be cremated

DENPASAR, Bali: The body parts of the victims of the Bali
bombing are scheduled to be cremated at Mumbul cemetery, Nusa
Dua, on Saturday and their ashes will be released at Sanur beach.

"There are 169 bags of unidentified body parts to be cremated
at 10 a.m.," head of Sanglah Hospital forensic laboratory Made
Maker said on Friday.

Of the 169 bags, 84 contained samples of body parts taken for
DNA identification.

On Friday, the Balinese community ran an Atur Piuning ceremony
at Mumbul, some 25 kilometers south of Denpasar, to ask for
acceptance from God.

The government had said earlier that the body parts would be
buried, not cremated, on March 1.

At least 2002 people were killed when two powerful bombs
ripped through two popular nightclubs in Kuta last Oct. 12, the
biggest attack since Sept. 11, 2001, when terrorists turned
commercial planes into deadly flying bombs that killed over 3,000
innocent people in New York and Washington. --JP