Bali Bombing 2002

On Oct 12th 2002 a suicide bomber inside the nightclub Paddy's Pub detonated a bomb in his backpack, causing many patrons, with or without injuries, to immediately flee into the street.
Fifteen seconds later, a second and much more powerful car bomb was detonated by another suicide bomber outside the Sari Club, located opposite Paddy's Pub. Damage to the densely populated residential and commercial district was immense, destroying neighbouring buildings and shattering windows several blocks away. The car bomb explosion left a one meter deep crater.
The local Sanglah hospital was ill-equipped to deal with the scale of the disaster and was overwhelmed with the number of injured, particularly burn victims. There were so many people injured by the explosion that some of the injured had to be placed in hotel pools near the explosion site to ease the pain of their burns.
Many of the injured were flown to the relatively close proximity of Darwin and Perth for specialist burns treatment. The final death toll was 202, mainly comprising Western tourists and holiday-makers in their 20s and 30s who were in or near Paddy's Pub or the Sari Club, but also including many Balinese Indonesians working or living nearby, or simply passing by.
Hundreds more people suffered horrific burns and other injuries. The largest group among those killed were holidayers from AUSTRALIA with 88 fatalities.

In 2002 I wrote this song.

FAR TOO CLOSE TO HOME

Chorus They came from the land down under They went to Bali just to play ay
They came from the land down under But now some of them are there to stay

It was a Saturday night there in Bali
Paddys Bar was packed with people all around
When the first bomb went off and then another
If you lived you'd never forget that dreadful sound Ch

The Sarie Club was also stacked with Aussies
There was Michael Steven Brendan Sue and Sally
They were all young Australians having fun
But it all ended so cruelly in Bali Ch

There were Aussie Rules players in the corner
There were surfers and soccer players by the door
But little did they know that night in Bali
Was going to be the last goal they'd ever score Ch

We'd read about the Jew and Arabs in Palestine
We'd heard Paisley in Belfast and the Pope in Rome
We'd seen on the telly Bagdad, Kabul and Bosnia
But Indonesia was far too close to home Ch
DOUBLE

For more info see
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/in_depth/asia_pacific/2002/bali/default.stm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2002_Bali_bombing