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Bali Bombers' Health Checked Before Executions, Telegraph Says

By Michael Heath

Nov. 7 (Bloomberg) -- Indonesian police doctors yesterday examined the three men convicted of the Bali bombings in preparation for their execution, the Daily Telegraph said, citing unidentified prison officials.

The medical checks on Amrozi, Ali Gufron and Imam Samudra will be used for comparison when autopsies are carried out, the Sydney-based newspaper reported. In June, checks were conducted on two Nigerian drug traffickers two days before they were executed, the Telegraph said.

All non-prison workers were ordered to leave the island where the bombers will be executed by firing squad and small boats were banned from the area, the Telegraph reported. The men are being held at a high-security prison off Java, Indonesia's most-populous island.

The three were convicted for the 2002 bombings in Bali's tourist strip of Kuta Beach that killed 202 people, 88 of them Australians. Indonesia blamed the Southeast Asian terrorist group Jemaah Islamiyah for the attack. The group, which is linked to al-Qaeda, wants to turn the archipelago into an Islamic state.

To contact the reporter on this story: Michael Heath in Sydney at mheath1@bloomberg.net.

Last Updated: November 6, 2008 17:31 EST

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