{"id":11562,"date":"2016-09-16T09:47:40","date_gmt":"2016-09-16T09:47:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/?p=11562"},"modified":"2016-09-16T09:47:40","modified_gmt":"2016-09-16T09:47:40","slug":"two-people-have-been-killed-and-18-injured-in-a-tourist-boat-explosion-near-bali","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/world-news\/two-people-have-been-killed-and-18-injured-in-a-tourist-boat-explosion-near-bali.html","title":{"rendered":"Two People Have Been Killed and 18 Injured in a Tourist-Boat Explosion Near Bali"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\">Two People Have Been Killed and 18 Injured in a Tourist-Boat Explosion Near Bali<\/span><\/strong><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\"><strong>Two People Have Been Killed and 18 Injured in a Tourist-Boat Explosion Near Bal<\/strong>i : Police said the explosion appears to have been an accident<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\">An explosion on a tourist boat near the Indonesian island of Bali on Thursday has left two people dead and 18 other foreigners injured, according to police.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\">An Austrian woman and another female foreigner were killed in the blast, which appears to have originated in the boat\u2019s fuel tank shortly after it set sail, Agence France-Presse (AFP) reports.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\">\u201cThe explosion happened five minutes after the boat departed,\u201d local police chief Sugeng Sudarso told AFP, adding that the vessel was only about 650 ft. from port when the incident occurred.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\">The blast appears to have been an accident. Police said a bomb squad had investigated the vehicle and ruled out an attack, according to AFP.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\">The boat was carrying some 35 foreign passengers and four crew members when it left eastern Bali for the island of Gili Trawangan, a popular tourist destination.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\">Preliminary information from police indicated that the injured passengers included nationals from the U.K., France, Germany, Italy, Portugal and Spain, reports AFP.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\">Authorities have not yet released the identities of the two people who were killed, but AFP cited police saying that both were female foreigners and that one died from head injuries.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 8pt; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\"><strong>Source<\/strong> : http:\/\/time.com\/4494655\/indonesia-tourism-boat-explosion-bali\/<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"fb-background-color\">\n\t\t\t  <div \n\t\t\t  \tclass = \"fb-comments\" \n\t\t\t  \tdata-href = \"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/world-news\/two-people-have-been-killed-and-18-injured-in-a-tourist-boat-explosion-near-bali.html\"\n\t\t\t  \tdata-numposts = \"10\"\n\t\t\t  \tdata-lazy = \"true\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-colorscheme = \"light\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-order-by = \"social\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-mobile=true>\n\t\t\t  <\/div><\/div>\n\t\t  <style>\n\t\t    .fb-background-color {\n\t\t\t\tbackground: #ffffff !important;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t.fb_iframe_widget_fluid_desktop iframe {\n\t\t\t    width: 630px !important;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t  <\/style>\n\t\t  ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two People Have Been Killed and 18 Injured in a Tourist-Boat Explosion Near Bali Two People Have Been Killed and 18 Injured in a Tourist-Boat Explosion Near Bali : Police said the explosion appears to have been an accident An explosion on a tourist boat near the Indonesian island of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11563,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5470],"tags":[6639,6643,6641,6640,6642],"class_list":["post-11562","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-news","tag-bali","tag-explosion","tag-gili-islands","tag-indonesia","tag-tourism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11562","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11562"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11562\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11563"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}