Mourners mark 20th anniversary of Bali resort island bombings

Hundreds of mourners and survivors have commemorated the 20th anniversary of the bombings that killed more than 200 people on the Indonesian resort island of Bali, Qazet.az reports.

Grieving families, attack survivors and representatives from several embassies attended a memorial in Bali’s popular tourist hub of Kuta on Wednesday, where an al-Qaeda-linked group detonated bombs on October 12, 2002, resulting in Southeast Asia’s deadliest terror attack.

Most of the bombing victims were foreign holidaymakers from more than 20 countries but Australia suffered the biggest loss with 88 dead, followed by 38 Indonesian citizens and more than 20 people from the United Kingdom.

“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 was left with permanent eye injuries from the attack, told AFP.

“I don’t want them to be forgot