JAKARTA (AP): Australian Prime Minister John Howard will open an eye clinic dedicated to victims of the 2002 Bali bombings during a visit to Indonesia next week, a senior official said Tuesday.
Howard will open the new clinic at a hospital on the resort island before meeting with President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, Indonesian Foreign Minister Hassan Wirajuda said.
Australia lost 88 citizens in the Oct. 12, 2002, Bali nightclub blasts that killed 202 people.
Regional terror network Jemaah Islamiyah, which officials say wants to create an Islamic state across much of Southeast Asia, has been blamed for the blasts, as well as attacks in 2003 and 2004 on the J.W. Marriott Hotel and Australian Embassy in Jakarta, and triple suicide bombings in 2005 on restaurants in Bali.
Together they killed more than 240 people, many of them Western tourists.
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