3rd UPDATE: Indonesia Confirms Execution Of 3 Bali Bombers
JAKARTA (AFP)--Indonesia's attorney general's office confirmed Sunday that the three Islamists convicted over the 2002 Bali bombings had been executed.
"At around 00:15 a.m. (1715 GMT Saturday) the three convicted men on death row, Amrozi, Mukhlas and Imam Samudra, were executed by firing squad. The autopsy results show that all three are dead," spokesman Jasman Panjaitan said.
"The family members are now bathing the bodies," he said, adding that more details would be given later Sunday morning.
A brother of two of the militants, Amrozi and Mukhlas, said the family had been informed.
"Our family has received news of the execution...May our brothers, God willing, be invited by green birds to heaven now," Mohammad Chozin told reporters in their home village of Tenggulun, east Java.
Local television reported the three men were shot by three firing squads in an orange grove near their island prison off southern Java.
The 2002 bombings targeted packed nightspots on the holiday island of Bali, killing more than 160 foreigners including 88 Australians, as well as 38 Indonesians.
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November 08, 2008 15:11 ET (20:11 GMT)
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