Sunday, October 2 2005 10:03 Hrs (IST) - World Time -

Bali: Suicide bombers carried out attacks on three crowded restaurants on Indonesia's resort island of Bali, killing at least 25 people and wounding more than a 100, a top anti-terror official said today (Oct 02, 2005).

He said two Malaysian fugitives were suspected of masterminding the strikes. Maj Gen Ansyaad Mbai said the three attackers went into the packed restaurants last evening (Oct 01, 2005) wearing explosive vests. The remains of their bodies were found at the scenes, he said.

"I have seen them. All that is left is their head and feet," he told sources. "By the evidence we can conclude the bombers were carrying the explosives around their waists."

Malaysians Azahari bin Husin and Noordin Mohamed Top have been on Indonesia's most wanted lists since attacks on the same resort island in 2002 killed 202 people, most of them foreigners.

The two alleged to be key members of the al-Qaida linked Jemaah Islamiyah terror group were accused of orchestrating those blasts and two others in the Indonesian capital in 2003 and 2004. Those attacks also involved suicide bombers.

"The modus operandi of yesterday's attacks is the same as the earlier ones," said Mbai. "We suspect (Husin and Top) were behind this."

Dozens of people, most of them Indonesian, waited in tears outside the morgue in Sanglah Hospital, near the island's capital Denpasar, for news of friends and relatives missing since the attacks.