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Over 100 Australians Injured in Bombings on Bali

Aired October 13, 2002 - 11:29   ET

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FREDRICKA WHITFIELD, CNN ANCHOR: Australia's prime minister calls last night's bombings on the island of Bali "barbaric." Bali is a popular destination for Australian tourists. But now there's a big concern about Australians who are still on the island. We turn now to CNN's John Vause. He is in Sidney. Hi there, John.
JOHN VAUSE, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Hi, Fredricka. To put this in perspective for viewers in the United States, this would be like a terrorist attack happening in Cancun in Mexico, a place where young people go to celebrate the end of a sporting season or the end of an academic year, a place where they go to party, to let their hair down. And then you have this. You have two blasts, you have a massive death toll by all accounts, one which we will not know for quite some time.

We know that from an Australian point of view, there's 113 people in hospitals, 60 of those are considered to be in a serious condition. The Australian response is to send medical teams up there right away. They've also initialized the flights of four C-130 Hercules from the Royal Australian Air Force. The first one of those planes has been delayed on its return to Darwyn (ph). It's carrying at least 30 of those injured back to Australia. It's expected to arrive in Darwyn (ph) by the top of the hour. They will go directly to the Darwyn (ph) hospital. Once that hospital becomes full, they'll then move on to hospitals in Perth and in Brisbane.

Hospitals all around Australia are being placed on high alert to cope with the number who have been injured in this terrorist attack in Bali. Now, it's a very popular destination. There are thousands of people there. Many of those just want to get off of Qantas; the national airline is now scheduling extra flights to get people home -- Fredricka.

WHITFIELD: All right, John Vause from Sydney, thank you very much.

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Aired October 13, 2002 - 11:29   ET
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
FREDRICKA WHITFIELD, CNN ANCHOR: Australia's prime minister calls last night's bombings on the island of Bali "barbaric." Bali is a popular destination for Australian tourists. But now there's a big concern about Australians who are still on the island. We turn now to CNN's John Vause. He is in Sidney. Hi there, John.
JOHN VAUSE, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Hi, Fredricka. To put this in perspective for viewers in the United States, this would be like a terrorist attack happening in Cancun in Mexico, a place where young people go to celebrate the end of a sporting season or the end of an academic year, a place where they go to party, to let their hair down. And then you have this. You have two blasts, you have a massive death toll by all accounts, one which we will not know for quite some time.

We know that from an Australian point of view, there's 113 people in hospitals, 60 of those are considered to be in a serious condition. The Australian response is to send medical teams up there right away. They've also initialized the flights of four C-130 Hercules from the Royal Australian Air Force. The first one of those planes has been delayed on its return to Darwyn (ph). It's carrying at least 30 of those injured back to Australia. It's expected to arrive in Darwyn (ph) by the top of the hour. They will go directly to the Darwyn (ph) hospital. Once that hospital becomes full, they'll then move on to hospitals in Perth and in Brisbane.

Hospitals all around Australia are being placed on high alert to cope with the number who have been injured in this terrorist attack in Bali. Now, it's a very popular destination. There are thousands of people there. Many of those just want to get off of Qantas; the national airline is now scheduling extra flights to get people home -- Fredricka.

WHITFIELD: All right, John Vause from Sydney, thank you very much.

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