Man admits planting Bali bomb, say police

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JAKARTA - Indonesian police say the owner of a minivan used in last month's devastating car-bomb attack in Bali has admitted being part of the group that carried out the atrocity.

In the first major breakthrough in the case, national police chief Da'i Bachtiar said the man, whom he identified as Amrozi, was on the resort island at the time of the October 12 blasts.

Asked by reporters if Amrozi had parked the explosives-laden minivan in front of a packed nightclub, Bachtiar said:

"The group has several people with a division of labour, certainly including Amrozi, who admitted going there and dividing up tasks."

Bachtiar was speaking not long after making earlier remarks about Amrozi, including that he had given authorities plenty of information about the blasts that killed nearly 200 people.

- REUTERS

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