CANBERRA, Australia, Oct. 3 (UPI) -- The Bali suicide bombers may have used different devices from previous attacks.
The bombers, who killed up to 26 people and wounded more than 100 in Bali, Indonesia, may have adopted different devices and new tactics from previous attacks, Australia's Police Commissioner Mike Kealty said, according to a report in the British Daily Telegrpah newspaper carried on its telegraph.co.uk website Monday.
Keelty said the latest smaller, coordinated series of blasts suggested new tactics had been used.
The attacks would mark the first time explosive belts would have been used by the al-Qaida-linked Southeast Asian terror group Jemaah Islamiyah (JI), the Telegraph said.
JI is being blamed for the Oct. 1 multiple attacks. JI members were convicted for the attacks on two crowded nightclubs in Bali three years ago, in which 202 people died.
The change in tactics could be in response to increased security in Indonesia, which make JI's preferred method of car bombings more difficult.
The suspects in the near-simultaneous bombings were believed to have used explosive belts loaded with ball bearings and glass to maximize damage and injury. The blast blew apart the bombers' torsos, but their heads remained intact, the Telegraph said.
