By HELEN TUNNAH
New Zealanders who were injured or traumatised in last year's Bali bombings which killed 202 people are to get Government funding to attend commemorations there next month.
Acting Foreign Minister Marian Hobbs said yesterday that people should be aware travel warnings remained in place for Bali because of the risk of further terrorist attacks.
She said people who were hurt, or saw the blasts and their aftermath, could ask for help to go to commemoration services in either Bali or Wellington.
Three New Zealanders and 88 Australians were among those who died when separate bombs ripped through two crowded bars in Bali's Kuta district. Scores of others were injured, and New Zealand holiday-makers were among those who tended to the injured and dying soon after the explosions.
The suspected mastermind of the bombings, an Indonesian known as Hambali was arrested last month, after a suicide bomb attack killed 12 people at the J. W. Marriott Hotel in Jakarta.
One of the Bali bombers, Amrozi , has been sentenced to death for his role in the attack.
Marian Hobbs said yesterday that people directly involved in the bombings or still suffering because of what they saw would be helped to go to services on October 12. The Bali package would include airfares, three nights' accommodation and transfers to the airport and service.
Anyone who wanted to travel independently to Bali would be able to apply for limited financial help.
People have until Monday evening to apply to go.
She said another commemoration service would be held in Wellington, and people could travel to it if they preferred.
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