Two decades ago, Joe Frost was sitting at a seafood restaurant on Bali's Jimbaran Bay and watching the sky turn pink as the sun set over the water.

The 20-year-old was joined by 18 others who had just returned from a day of sightseeing.

They were part of a larger group of about 50 people from Newcastle who had been holidaying on the island.

As they waited for their meals, they heard a blast towards the beach.

"Someone at the table said it might have been a gas bottle exploding," Mr Frost recalled.

Seconds later, a second explosion ripped through the restaurant.

The bomb detonated metres from Mr Frost's table and threw him into the sand.

"I'd been gripping my chair and then I was in the sand," he said.

"The screaming in my ears was so loud that the rest of the world was really quiet

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