Police, mass bustle as Bali bombers' bodies arrive home
The Jakarta Post, Jakarta | Sun, 11/09/2008 11:08 AM
Hundreds of Bali bombers' followers clashed with police officers as the bodies of Amrozi and Muklas a.k.a. Ali Gufron arrived at the family house in Tenggulun village in Lamongan, East Java on Sunday.
The mass tried to pushed dozens of armed police officers away from the house as the bodies arrived at around 09:30 a.m.
A motorcade of an ambulance and a number of police cars brought the bodies, which was taken from the Nusakambangan Island prison by a helicopters.
Separately, in Serang, Banted, in western Java, the body of Imam Samudra was buried in Lopang Gede Cemetery at around 11 a.m.. Hundreds of sympathizers aslo participated in the funeral.
The three Islamic militants were shot by firing squad for the 2002 Bali bombings that left 202 people dead, many of them foreign tourists. (dre)