The terror attack in Bali was caused by three bombs, one of them inside a nightclub and two outside another club, Indonesian police said yesterday.
One was placed inside the Padi club near a disc jockey's stand and two others outside the nearby Sari Club in Kuta district, said national police deputy spokesman Brigadier-General Edward Aritonang in a statement.
"The source of the big blast is a Mitsubishi L-300 van," he said.
Previously eyewitnesses had spoken of only two blasts in Kuta, with a car bomb outside the Sari Club causing most of the carnage.
The spokesman said forensic experts are analyzing a motorcycle, two Indonesian identity cards, a crash helmet and a glove recovered from the blast site.
Investigators have questioned 67 people about the attack but "no suspects have been declared," he said, adding tough, new anti-terror powers would be used "as a reference" in the investigation.
The emergency decree issued over the weekend authorizes the death penalty for some terror acts and allows suspects to be held for up to six months without trial.
The official confirmed that the death toll from the Oct. 12 blast is 187 but Aritonang said 97 people were still missing as of yesterday.
Also yesterday, Indonesian police formally detained a radical Muslim cleric accused of links to terrorism as part of the security crackdown.
Elderly cleric Abu Bakar Bashir was arrested in his hospital bed in Solo city on Java island Saturday and formally detained yesterday for failing to answer a summons for questioning over bombings two years ago.
Bashir, 64, has not been named in connection with the Bali blast, but has been implicated in a spate of church bombings in Indonesia.
Meanwhile, the six Taiwanese dentists who flew to Bali on Thursday to identify victims returned home yesterday and confirmed that Eve Kuo was among the dead. Kuo was a member of the Taipei Baboons rugby club. There is still no information about the fate of the four members of the club with whom she was traveling.
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