Boy Found Dead Without Clothes In Irrigation Channel

BENGKULU Rafa, a 4-year-old boy who was swept away in the irrigation canal of Air Manjuto, Mukomuko Regency, Bengkulu Province, was found dead. Lubuk Pinang Police Chief Ipda Otorius Gea said Rafa's body was found after joint officers and the community around the location conducted a joint search. "Members of the Lubuk Pinang Police together with the community conducted a search and found Rafa's body (4) the victim drowned in the irrigation channel of Air Manjuto," said Lubuk Pinang Police Chief Ipda Orius Gea, Antara, Sunday, March 17. He said that the search for one missing person drowned in the irrigation channel of Air Manjuto after members of the Lubuk Pinang Police picket received a report from one of the residents of Lubuk Pinang Village. He said the chronology of the incident on Sunday morning at around 09.30 WIB came when a resident of Lubuk Pinang Village came to report that a boy aged about 4 years was swept away and drowned in the irrigation channel of Air Manjuto in this area. Then, he said, a search was carried out for approximately two hours by members of the Lubuk Pinang Police along with a number of community members in the Lubuk Pinang District area. Finally, he said, the boy who had previously drowned was found at the end of the irrigation channel where the child was first swept away submerged in a state without wearing clothes.

Then the child was immediately taken to the Lubuk Pinang Health Center for examination, after being examined by the pediatrician, he was declared dead due to lack of oxygen. After that, residents and members of the Lubuk Pinang Police took the body to the Lubuk Pinang Health Center which was not far from the location," he also said. Dedek (35) a resident of Ranah Karya Village, Lubuk Pinang District.