(Updates with confirmation from family)
CILACAP, Indonesia (AFP)--Three Islamists sentenced to death for the Bali bombings that killed 202 people were executed by firing squad at midnight Saturday, local television reported.
Amrozi, 47, his brother Mukhlas, 48, and ringleader Imam Samudra, 38, were killed with shots to the heart on the island prison of Nusakambangan off southern Java, TV One television reported quoting an official source.
The family of two of the men confirmed Sunday they had been executed at midnight.
"Our family has received news of the execution...May our brothers, God willing, be invited by green birds to heaven now," Mohammad Chozin, a brother of Amrozi and Mukhlas, told reporters in their home village.
The bombers were sentenced five years ago for the 2002 attacks on the resort island of Bali that killed more than 160 foreigners including 88 Australians, as well as 38 Indonesians.
They repeatedly said they wanted to die as "martyrs" for their Islamist cause, but the executions were delayed by a series of failed appeals and most recently by the Muslim holy month of Ramadan in September.
Security forces are on high alert across the mainly Muslim archipelago amid fears of reprisal attacks.
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November 08, 2008 14:57 ET (19:57 GMT)

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