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Police said on Thursday they had made two more arrests in

| Source: AFP

Police said on Thursday they had made two more arrests in
connection with this month's suicide bombings in Bali, a day
after an angry crowd stormed the island's main jail to demand
speedy executions for those convicted for the 2002 blasts.

It was not clear whether those arrested on Wednesday in Banten
province on the island of Java were believed to have been
directly involved in the attacks on the crowded restaurants on
Oct. 1, which killed 20 people plus the three bombers.

"The two men in Banten were detained for questioning for seven
days," AFP quoted police spokesman for the Bali investigation
Soenarko D. Ardanto.

In Jakarta, National Police spokesman Arianto Budiharjo
confirmed the arrests and said that the first suspect in the
bombings, who was detained on Sunday, had been released because
he was found to have no links with the case.

News of the fresh arrests emerged after a public display of
anger and frustration in Bali, where officials and relatives of
the dead gathered on Wednesday to commemorate the third
anniversary of the 2002 bombings.

A crowd of more than 1,000 ripped down the large steel gates
that guarded Kerobokan prison and demanded that the three key
bombers on death row -- Amrozi, Mukhlas and Imam Samudra -- be
executed.

The three were sentenced to death by firing squad for the 2002
nightclub bombings which killed 202 people and dealt tourism on
the resort island a heavy blow.

Meanwhile, the prosecutors office in Denpasar has picked Bali
as the location to carry out the execution against Amrozi,
Mukhlas and Imam, a condition demanded by many Balinese,
newsportal detik.com quoted chief judge of the Denpasar Court
Nengah Suryada as saying on Thursday.

But Nengah said that the authorities had yet to decide on the
schedule for the execution as they must first obtain written
statements from the three whether they would request for clemency
from the President.

He added that the three had previously said they would not
seek clemency, but the court and the prosecutors needed formal
written statements.

The three convicts were transferred to the maximum security
Nusakambangan Prison island in Central Java from Kerobokan
Prison, a day before the attack against the Bali jail.

The police said they were reviewing security at Kerobokan.

"We are continuing to provide security around the jail and
there is a plan to build a police post at the front," police
spokesman A.S. Reniban told AFP.

A second protest in front of Bali's provincial legislative
council in Denpasar has been called for Monday.

Passions are running high following this month's bombings in
Bali.

Before Wednesday's protest the mood had been one of grief as
some 1,000 guests, many blinking back tears, observed 202 seconds
of silence in memory of those killed on October 12, 2002 in
attacks on two nightclubs.

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