JAKARTA, October 12 (IslamOnline & News Agencies) - Two blasts Saturday, October 12, on Indonesia's resort island of Bali, including a bomb that blew up near the U.S. Consulate General, killed 12 persons and injured scores, including foreigners, according to police and hospital officials.

A blast rocked the Padi club in the tourist district of Kuta, around 11 pm (1500 GMT) injuring many and at leaving at least five dead, police in Kuta said, reported Agence France-Presse (AFP).

The state Antara news agency said that at least 12 people were killed and 40 injured in the Kuta blast.

Bali provincial police spokesman, Adjunct Senior Commissioner Suyatmo said the blast badly damaged both the Padi Club and the Sari Club across the street, a popular hangout of foreign tourists, damaging several cars parked on the street.

"I believe that the blast was caused by a home-made bomb," Suyatmo told AFP.

A separate blast hit an area just 250 meters from the U.S. Consulate in Renon, in the south of Denpasar, the capital of Bali some 15 kilometers north of Kuta, but left no one injured, he said.

"The blast took place on the side of the road and there was no one injured because the home-made bomb was apparently thrown and exploded some 250 meters from the U.S. Consulate General," Suyatmo said.

The staff at the Sanglah state hospital in Denpasar declined to give any detail but said that many were brought into the hospital's emergency ward and that there were foreigners among them.

Police could not immediately confirm the casualty report.

"There is a lot of damage and panicking within a radius of 1/2 kilometer" of the explosion in Kuta, said the policeman, on duty in the Kuta police precinct.

He was unable to determine the cause of the blast, but said it was a strong explosion.

Police bomb squads and investigators had been sent to the site.

On Sunday, October 6, The two largest Islamic movements in Indonesia has called on the authorities to ensure a brothel free month of Ramadan in order to prevent attacks by Muslim fundamentalists against such enterprises.

Nahdlatul Ulama (NU) and Muhammadiyah have voiced support for calls to close “immoral” entertainment centers and brothels during the upcoming Islamic fasting month of Ramadan, a joint communiqué from the organizations said.