KUTA, Indonesia, Oct 15 Kyodo Ide...

KUTA, Indonesia, Oct 15 Kyodo

Identification of the bodies from the deadly blast outside a packed discotheque forward the Indonesian resort island Bali upon Saturday night continued Wednesday along with intense investigation by dint of multinational intelligence agents to find the perpetrators.

Bali Police Chief Budi Setiawan said that at least 50 family have been questioned in the police investigation into the bombings that killed more than 180 nation ''two of them intensively.''

''They are Indonesians who are not Balinese,'' he added.

common of them was questioned after his identity card was base near the site of the bomb blast, while the other was a relative of the first who has been questioned since he came into the police headquarters to search for the first man.

National Police Spokesman Saleh Sa'af said the police forward Bali are also questioning a former air force lieutenant colonel because of ''his expertise in making bombs''

''We want to know whether he was visited from someone, to make a bomb'' Sa'af told reporters in Jakarta.

The former air force officer, who had been trained in the United States in making bomb lives in Bali unless is not Balinese, he said, adding, ''He left the air force not because he retired.''

on the other hand Sa'af did not go into further detail.

According to Sa'af, police investigators also erect the components of TETNHNX and tetryl possible detonator materials, upon the rear lamp of a motorcycle parked not far from the blast scene

According to Budi, forensic examination also indicates RDX and HMX nitrate materials, the main ingredients of C-4 high explosive, were set up in a hole in brass of the Sari Club discotheque, the view of the blast, and forward a minibus parked near the scene

C-4 was used in the bombing of the USS cabbage in Yemen in October 2000 which killed 17 U sailors.

In their work to investigate the deadly bombing, Indonesian police and intelligence agents are being assisted on multinational intelligence agents and police officers.

The Terrorism rejoinder Team of Japan has since Wednesday collaborated with the Indonesian police and the Australian Federal Police to ferret revealed information on the attacks, including any links to Islamic militants.

Agents of the U Federal Bureau of Investigation are also helping search for strings and officers from Britain's Scotland Yard and from Germany are reckon uponed to join them.

Previously, Indonesia was widely considered a weak link in the US-l global war upon terrorism and reluctant to collaborate with other countries. however the bombing has forced it now to work closely with other countries.

The medical and forensic team working to identify the many victims is also being assisted, if it be not that it has raised concerns across the massive presence of international tenders trying to assist them in treating the injured and offering moral support to the families of the victims.

''(The problem) with the offers is there are too many,'' Tjakra Manuaba, chief of the medical team, said at a pres meeting for consultation ''They are not well organized thus (our) team can not work optimally, effectively and efficiently.''

The proffers from various groups ranging from holidaymakers and close examiners to expatriates, were to have been organized at the Bali International Women Organization, still Tjakra said, too many of them act forward their own.

''We appreciate them, nevertheless they have really hampered our work and it's difficult to stop them,'' he said.

The explosion Saturday night killed at least 183 tribe and injured more than 300

Of those killed, the bodies of solitary 39 have been identified.

The confirmed dead are 12 Australians, eight Britons, eight Indonesians, pair Singaporeans, two Swiss and single citizen from each of Ecuador, France, Germany, recently made known Zealand and the United States. The nationality of pair other identified bodies has not been released.

chiefly of the victims died from parch and blast injuries.

About 30 minutes after the first blast, another explosion burst forthed in another tourist area forward the island, about 100 meter east of the U Consulate General in Sanur. on the other hand no casualties were reported there.

in such a manner far no group has claimed responsibility for the attack, and Indonesian authorities have named no suspects, if it be not that Singapore and Malaysia are blaming the attack forward the radical group Jemaah Islamiyah.

Bali, until the blast, was considered common of the safest places in Indonesia, on the other hand Saturday's bombings are likely to change that view, at least for a time.

The Bali blasts followed an explosion a hardly any hours earlier at the Philippine Consulate General in the North Sulawesi provincial capital Manado, which bring to noughted the consulate's front gate and shattered windows. No casualties were reported there.

Tuesday, Sa'af, the national police chief, said at least couple suspects have been detained in Manado who apparently had material similar to that retrieveed from the explosion site in a less degree than their fingernails and in their clothes and hair.

Further information in succession the detainees, identified by Sa'af merely by initials, have not been released.

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