One more student dies after blast

JAKARTA: Another student of SMUN 47 state high school in Tanah Kusir, South Jakarta, died on Sunday of his wounds caused by the explosion of a helium cylinder that was used to inflate balloons to decorate the school on its 20th anniversary the previous day.

Budi Wiyono died at Pertamina Hospital, South Jakarta, where he was being treated. His schoolmate, Alvin Taher, was still in the hospital.

The explosion had earlier killed Irfan Satria, one of a pair of twins who died instantly in front of the school at about 7 a.m. on Saturday.

The balloon vendor, Sarno, was detained by the police over the incident. He had inflated 75 balloons and had handed them to the anniversary committee when he realized that the tank was overheating. He fetched water to pour over it, but it exploded before he returned. --JP