I raced outside - as did everyone who was in the club - to see what was going on. ( Facebook: Andrew Csabi)ĭE HAART: I was in a music store and all of a sudden there was a dull thud, the lights flickered and went out. So we a restaurant bar about 400 metres, just at the top end of Jalan Legian.Īndrew Csabi was out having drinks with two close friends when the bombs went off. They were lazy, in my view, but that probably saved their life. Normally, we would have gone down to Paddy's Bar there … but the two officers had only just stepped off the plane, so they didn't want to.
Two officers had arrived and Mick and I met with them in the early evening. GLEN MCEWAN, AFP senior liaison officer deployed in Indonesia in 2002 : I flew into Bali afternoon due to a people-smuggling matter that I had to attend to as part of my duties. We had a quick swim, got ready, went to a place for dinner and then made our way to the Sari Club. We'd eaten at the nightclubs, near the famous Poppies lane, and then we walked along Kuta beach at sunset back to our hotel.ĮRIK DE HAART, Australia survivor and member of the Coogee Dolphins rugby league club: I was sharing a room with Shane Foley and Gerard Yeo and we got about 4pm. It was very colourful and noisy and warm in Kuta. ( Reuters: David Gray PB)ĪLAN ATKINSON, former ABC journalist and one of the first reporters on the scene: It was Saturday evening. Locals and tourists, particularly Australian sporting teams celebrating their end-of-season break, had flocked to Kuta Beach that day to enjoy the warm weather, idyllic beaches and vibrant party scene.īali was a popular tourist destination when it was attacked in 2002. (All interviews have been condensed and edited for clarity.) A night out Together, they weave together the story of the Bali bombings, the single-largest loss of Australian life in an act of terror. In this oral history, we hear from Australian and Balinese survivors, former and current Australian Federal Police officers, a journalist and a terrorism expert. Or that a third bomb would detonate about 45 seconds later near the US consulate. Or that mere moments later, a second, bigger bomb would go off in a van across the road, outside the Sari Club. No-one would expect that hours later, about 11pm, a bomb would explode inside the popular Paddy's Irish Pub. Warning: This article contains graphic accounts of the Bali bombings and the immediate aftermath of the scene in Kuta Beach, including descriptions of injured people and the dead. It was October 12, 2002, and the night was just getting started. Locals and foreigners - including many Australians - waded through the main street of Jalan Legian, leaving crowded restaurants and pouring into bustling bars.Ī steady line of cars passed by, offering passengers a glimpse into Bali's party scene from the safety of their tinted windows.
It was a typical Saturday night in Bali and the Kuta Beach tourist strip was heaving with people.
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