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Bali 9 Executions: Authorities took 27 minutes to confirm Chan, Sukumaran deaths
By Tom Allard
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It took 27 minutes for Indonesian authorities to confirm that the eight people executed on Nusakambangan, including Bali nine pair Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran, were deceased, according to local media reports.
News portal detik.com quoted spokesman for the Attorney-General Tony Spontana saying they were "shot at 00.35 and died at 01.02".
Whether it was a long agonising death remains uncertain, More likely, it took that amount of time for Indonesian doctors to check each of the victims.
Under Indonesian regulations, the commander of the firing squad will kill an execution victim with a bullet to the head if they don't die quickly at the hands of the 12-person firing squad.
Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran.
The firing squad stands five to 10 metres away from their victim.
Typically in Indonesia, an execution victim has the right to have a religious counsellor near them right up until they are killed.
Mr Spontana said the eight men then had their bodies washed and the bullets removed from their heart and the wounds stitched up.
Prayers were said over the corpses, before they were taken to a mortuary on the penal island of Nusakambagan to be dressed and placed in a coffin.
Australia's Consul-General for Bali, Majell Hind, will formally take possession of the bodies of Chan and Sukumaran before they are transported by ambulance to a funeral home in Jakarta.
Families of the duo will follow the ambulance on the 12-hour journey.