Survivors describe blast chaos

AMID screams of “Allah, Allah, help!” the waiter - knocked down by a bomb blast at Bali’s beachside Cafe Menega - got up near a table where five children had been sitting.

“One woman rushed to pick up her child, but the little girl was already dead,” said 23-year-old Balinese native Wayan Subagia.

He said he saw the explosion 15 feet away, but suspected the bomb had been buried in the sand “because I did not see any package or anyone ... place a bomb”.

But a head and feet were all that remained of the suicide bomber who attacked the cafe, and two other attackers who blew themselves up at other tourist spots on Bali on Saturday evening in coordinated attacks that killed at least 26 people, an investigator said.

Subagia got up, but recalls blacking out before hearing the second blast.

As it was a clear night, he could see the mostly Indonesian guests from his restaurant in Jimbaran running down the beach toward the waves for safety.

“Adults picking up children - there was bleeding everywhere,” he said.

He eventually pulled himself together and responded to somebody’s cry for help.

“I pulled them towards the parking area. Then I just started to cry,” he said.

At a nearby restaurant, Madelaine Chan, a sales manager from Singapore, said no one around her was sure what had happened after the first blast.

About five minutes later, a second explosion went off at Cafe Nyoman, 30 yards away from where Chan was having dinner.

“We saw red sparks went off, then just grey smoke everywhere,” she said.

“Everybody was running to the beach. We thought it was the safest place then,” she said.

Survivors, alone or in pairs, carried away limp victims covered with blood and sand. One man draped a woman’s purse around her leg as he carried her to safety.