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editors survive Bali bomb blast
"it's an absolute miracle we're alive" ... Glenn DuBois
"it's an absolute miracle we're alive" ... Glenn DuBois
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Glenn DuBois and Peter Cooper arrive home in Australia after a miracle
escape from the Bali bombing |
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DuBois and Peter Cooper have been part of the editorial team for the
termite.com website since 1997. Both are lucky to be alive... they
were standing in the Sari Club within 15 metres from the car bomb when
it exploded knocking them unconscious. They came to, a few minutes
later, with bodies and debris on top of them but with no one else left
alive in the Sari Club (other survivors had escape d
soon after the blast). They managed in a state of shell-shock, sometimes
unconscious on their feet, to stagger out a few minutes before the Sari
Club burst in flames "like a bonfire", said Glenn DuBois on his arrival
back home in Sydney Australia. Both suffered severely damaged ear drums and some minor cuts that needed stitches. Glenn has a fractured cheek-bone, but neither have any serious burns. "It's an absolute miracle we're alive... we feel so glad to survive with only minor injuries but are deeply traumatised by the loss of life and serious injury to so many people who were there, like us, just socialising, dancing and having a good time".
Details
of Glenn and Peter's horrific experience in the Bali bomb blast and
their miraculous escape was published in the Melbourne AGE Newspaper.
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UPDATE:
4th
October 2003 in a recently released book “Back from the Dead”
author Patrick Lindsay notes the Bali bomb was improperly prepared.
The 1,000 kilogram mixture of explosives had detonated with an explosive
force of a 100 kilogram bomb. Had it exploded to it’s full potential,
then thousands (not hundreds) of people would have been killed and
many more maimed over a much wider area .... a thought too horrible
to contemplate. |
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