More Australian fatalities identified

More Australian fatalities identified

Wahyoe Boediwardhana, The Jakarta Post, Denpasar, Bali

After five days of work, a joint forensics team from Indonesia
and Australia identified on Thursday two casualties of last
weekend's bomb attacks in Bali as missing Australian nationals.

The identification of Newcastle couple of Colin Zwolinski and
Fiona Zwolinski brings the Australian death toll in the Oct. 1
blasts to four. Sixteen-year-old Brendan Fitzgerald and 48-year-
old Jennifer H. Williamson were the first Australians to be
confirmed dead.

"We are arranging with families the return of the bodies to
Australia. It will take a number of days," Australian Embassy
Public Affairs Counselor Elizabeth O'Neill said on Thursday.

Brendan, from the West Australian town of Busselton, was the
youngest of four Australians killed on the attack on the resort
island. His young sister Jessica and father Terry were seriously
injured and have been airlifted to Singapore. Doctors fear Terry
may go blind due to wounds to his eyes. Like her father, Jessica
also received burns and shrapnel injuries.

The Disaster Victim Identification team at Sanglah General
Hospital Ida Bagus Putu Alit said the forensic experts identified
the bodies after comparing post-mortem data, including teeth
structure, skin color and face shapes, with data provided by
families.

The bodies of Zwolinski couple were found among those perished
at the Kafe Nyoman in Jimbaran, where the first bomb went off at
around 7:40 p.m. last Saturday.

The forensic team has now identified 21 bodies.

Police had insisted that the terror attack had claimed 22
lives, but Alit said he believed the number of dead would reach
23. The forensic team has examined 26 bags containing both bodies
and body parts. It has determined that there are at least 21
bodies, including those of the suicide bombers.

Alit said the forensic team relied a lot on data provided by
families in performing the identifications.

"It requires cooperation from the families who have claimed
the loss of their parents, spouses or children. There was a lack
of post-mortem data that had slowed the identification process in
the first days of our effort," Alit said.

Volunteers who help trace the whereabouts of the blast victims
have received reports on 76 missing people, but as of Thursday 44
of them had been taken off the list.

The volunteers' data also revealed that hospitals had
discharged 14 people injured by the suicide bombings, including a
South Korean national.

Those who remain missing include three Japanese, two Germans,
two Danes, two Americans, an Irishman, a Pakistani, a Briton and
a Dutchman.

The coordinator of the volunteers, Jane Marie Lumy, called on
the public to report the disappearance of people following the
terror attack.

Foreigners still missing after bomb blasts:

Akiko Sasaki (Japan)

Anders Vaibro (Denmark)

Ante Drazina (USA)

David Smymn (Ireland)

Dr Syahid Malik (Pakistan)

Imke Manan Rath (Germany)

Jane Husbid (UK)

Morten Rahm (Denmark)

Rudi Winter (Netherlands)

Seiji Sakamoto (Japan)

Stephane Provost M (USA)

Tonja Rinki (Germany)

Watanabe (Japan)