Unidentified Bali remains to be buried
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Police say 192 people, including many locals and young Australian tourists, died in the October 12 blast
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DENPASAR, Indonesia (AP) -- Authorities will bury 140 bags of unidentified human remains from victims of the Bali bombings in a ceremony next week, government officials on the Indonesian island said Thursday.
Indonesian and Australian police said 192 people died in the Oct. 12 blasts that ripped through two nightclubs on the Indonesian resort island.
But hundreds of body parts have proved impossible to identify and are being stored in refrigerated trucks outside the island's Sanglah Hospital.
All the body parts will be buried next week, said Gde Nurjaya, a spokesman at the Bali governor's office in Denpasar.
He said the remains will be buried rather than cremated, Bali's traditional custom, to anticipate the possibility that families of the victims may try to identify them sometime in the future.
Nurjaya did not release the date and location of the burial.
The Jakarta Post reported Thursday that Australia had given authorities in Bali permission to handle the remains as they see fit. At least 88 Australians died in the blasts.
The bombings were the bloodiest terrorist attack since the Sept. 11 strikes in the United States.
The victims were mostly young foreign tourists from at least 20 countries, including Australia, Britain, Indonesia, the United States, Germany, Sweden, Denmark, France, Switzerland and Japan.
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