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Bali bombers executed by firing squad

Indonesia - Bali bombers reported executed
Indonesia - Bali bombers reported executed

Indonesia executed three Muslim militants sentenced to death for the 2002 Bali nightclub bombings, the attorney-general's office said in a statement.

Jasman Pandjaitan, a spokesman for the attorney-general's office, told a news conference the three men - Imam Samudra, Mukhlas and Amrozi - were executed by firing squad on Nusakambangan island in central Java.

The two explosions on Bali's Kuta strip on 12 October, 2002 - one at Paddy's Bar and the other at the Sari Club - killed 202 people including 88 Australians and 38 Indonesian citizens.