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Grieving families, survivors mark 20th anniversary of Bali bombings
- A candlelight vigil will be held at the site of the attack to remember the 202 victims, including 88 Australians
- Prime Minister Anthony Albanese told a memorial service in Sydney that the blasts had left a permanent mark on Australia’s national identity
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Hundreds of mourners and survivors commemorated on Wednesday the 20th anniversary of the bombings that killed more than 200 people on the Indonesian resort island of Bali, as Jakarta considers the early release of one of the attack’s masterminds.
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Grieving families, attack survivors and representatives from several embassies will attend a memorial in Bali’s popular tourist hub of Kuta, where al-Qaeda-linked militants detonated bombs at a bar and nightclub on October 12, 2002.
“It’s OK that some people have forgotten what happened 20 years ago but there are still real victims, there are children who lost their parents in the bombing,” 47-year-old victim Thiolina Marpaung, one of the organisers of the memorial who has left with permanent eye injuries in the attack, said.
“I don’t want them to be forgotten.”
The candlelight vigil will be held at the site of the attack by victims’ family members to mark Southeast Asia’s deadliest terrorist attack and remember the 202 victims.
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