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The police investigate the car where the German tourist was found dead. The Police is still investigating the case thoroughly.
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Police Investigate the Closest People Denpasar (Bali Post) —
There are still many unanswered questions surrounding the discovery of the decomposed body of a German citizen, Mario Arnold (40). The police have yet to determine the cause of death; it remains unclear whether the victim committed suicide or was killed. However, the police are now concentrating their efforts on the victim’s closest friends.
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The police are tracing the people who were last contacted by the victim via a still-active phone that was found, along with the body, in a Suzuki car (license plate no. DK 683 Q. “The police are still investigating whom the victim last
contacted,” said a police source on Wednesday (10 / 2). The source, who declined to reveal his name, explained that the victim’s mobile phone had received a call from a number – allegedly the victim’s girlfriend, initialed DN.
She was later questioned by police personnel. “She seemed to be a friend of the victim. The last call made by the victim was to DN’s number,” explained the source. The police also uncovered some other information surrounding the
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Chilling aerial photos of 9/11 attack released
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NEW YORK – A trove of aerial photographs of the collapsing World Trade Center was widely released this week, offering a rare and chilling view from the heavens of the burning twin towers and the apocalyptic shroud of smoke and dust that settled over the city. The images were taken from a police helicopter — the only photographers allowed in the airspace near the skyscrapers on Sept. 11, 2001. They were obtained by ABC
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after it filed a Freedom of Information Act request last year with the National Institute of Standards and Technology, the federal agency that investigated the collapse. The chief curator of the planned Sept. 11 museum pronounced the pictures “a phenomenal body of work.” The photos are “absolutely core to understanding the visual phenomena of what was happening,” said Jan Ramirez of the National September 11 Memorial & Museum. They are “some of the most exceptional images in the world, I
think, of this event.” In some of the pictures, the tops of the nearby Woolworth Building and other skyscrapers can just be seen above the enormous cloud of debris, gray against a clear blue sky. Gray clouds billow through the streets of the financial district and shroud the 16 acres where the towers had stood just moments before. Buildings can hardly be seen at all in one image — just dust clouds hanging over the Hudson River at the southern tip of Manhattan. Continued on page 6
victim’s death. He was known to have a lot of debt, including owing a hotel some 8 million rupiah. “His car lease payment had not been paid off. The victim apparently did not have anything,” added the source. Meanwhile, when asked for more information about the victim’s cause of death, South Denpasar Police Station head AKP I Gede Ganefo said there had been no meaningful progress, but his team is still investigating the case. Continued on page 6