Death toll rises in Bali bomb blasts

Suicide bombers wearing explosive vests targeted tourist resorts on Bali with coordinated attacks that devastated three crowded restaurants on the Indonesian resort island, killing at least 26 people and wounding dozens of others, officials said today.

Authorities named two al-Qaida-linked Malaysian fugitives suspected of masterminding the 2002 Bali nightclub bombings as the likely culprits behind the latest carnage, which has raised doubts about the success of a regional crackdown on the Southeast Asian terrorist group Jemaah Islamiyah.