Andarko, Husky bosses hit in JW Marriot-Ritz Carlton bombings

Two top executives of oil companies and two mining workers were among those injured in the bomb blasts hitting JW Marriot and Ritz Carlton hotels in Jakarta Friday morning.

The two top oil executives are Gery Ford, the CEO of PT Anadarko Indonesia Company, and Kevin More, the general manager of PT Husky Indonesia.

?Mr. Ford has been taken to Singapore for treatment, while Mr. More has his bones broken and is being treated at the MMC Kuningan hospital,? Sulistiya Hastuti, the spokesperson of oil and gas upstream authority BPMIGAS, said on Friday.

Meanwhile, PT Freeport Indonesia (PTFI), the unit of American mining giant Freeport McMoRan Copper and Gold, said two of its workers were among those injured in the bomb blasts.

?The two are being treated by doctors,? PTFI?s spokesperson Mindo Pangaribuan told Petromindo.

Sources said two former mining chief executives, that is Noke Kiroyan, the former president director of PT Newmont Pacific Nusantara and PT Rio Tinto Indoesia, and Adrianto Machribie, PTFI?s former president director, were also injured during the incident.

Dozens were killed and injured during the incident, the police said soon after the incident and the number is likely to increase as rescue workers and police are seeking to find more bodies at the hotels. (Godang)