Two People Have Been Killed and 13 Injured in a Tourist-Boat Explosion Near Bali
An explosion on a tourist boat near the Indonesian island of Bali on Thursday has left two people dead and 13 other foreigners injured, according to police.
Reuters reports that the dead were an Indonesian and a Dutch national.
According to Agence France-Presse (AFP), a blast in the speedboat’s engine occurred shortly after it set sail from the popular holiday island.
“The explosion happened five minutes after the boat departed,” local police chief Sugeng Sudarso told AFP, adding that the vessel was only about 650 ft. from port when the incident occurred.
The cause of the explosion is still unclear, but police said the bomb squad is investigating the incident, according to AFP.
The boat was carrying 35 foreign passengers and four crew members when it left eastern Bali for the island of Gili Trawangan, a popular tourist destination.
Preliminary information from police indicated that the injured passengers included nationals from Australia, the U.K., Germany, Portugal and South Korea, reports AFP.
Authorities have not yet released the identities of the two people who were killed, but AFP cited police saying that one was a woman and that she died from head injuries.
[AFP]
