Fast recreation boat Gilicat 2 with 35 foreign tourists and 5 crew caught fire after engine explosion off Padang Bai in Bali Indonesia.
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“One of the passengers died from bad injuries after being hit by boat debris that also caused injuries in others”, Karangasen district police chief Sugeng Sudarso said, as quoted by The Independent.
Indonesian authorities say no Australians appear to have been involved in a fatal accident onboard an Indonesian ferry.
“Based on the testimony [from passengers] and from what I saw at the scene, the explosion came from the fuel tank”, he said.
BRITISH holidaymakers were on board a ferry which exploded, killing three people and injuring 20 off the coast of Bali.
It is believed 35 people, majority foreign tourists, were on the ferry at the time. Some reports say two died. “We are still investigating the exact cause of the explosion”, Sudarso said.
Among some 30 people on the speedboat were 17 Britons, and smaller numbers of foreigners from France, Italy, Portugal, Ireland and Spain, a passenger list showed. After receiving emergency treatment, they were evacuated to several hospitals in Denpasar and Gianyar.
Sudarso said there was no indication of terrorism and the bomb squad did not find any explosive materials.
He said the fuel tank on the ferry was located next to a battery, which was one possible cause of the explosion.
He said the dead are an Austrian woman and a woman of European nationality who police initially said was German.
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The boat carried 29 foreign tourists: two Spanish, nine British, six Italian, four Portuguese, two Germans, two Dutch and four Austrians.
