There Are No Body Pieces, The Search For The Body Of The Glodok Plaza Fire Victim Is Officially Closed

Search for victims of the Glodok Plaza fire/ Photo: IST

The joint team did not find any body parts on the last day of searching for victims of the Glodok Plaza fire, Tamansari, West Jakarta, Friday, February 21.

"We did not find it on the last day," said Karodokpol, Police Medical and Health Center (Pusdokkes) Brigadier General Nyoman Eddy Purnama Wirawan to the press after searching at the location, Friday, February 21.

However, said Nyoman, his party found a number of properties that allegedly belonged to fire victims.

"We just found a kind of property, there was a waist bag, then there were glasses. We found two important things," said Brigadier General Nyoman.

With the completion of the search for the victim's body today, the search process is technically closed.

"So we agree that the search is currently closed," said Nyoman.

However, following the cleaning of the fire area by the building's management, the Police, said Nyoman, are still opening up new findings.

"However, we need to emphasize, because this area still needs physical cleaning later, we do not rule out the possibility that the officers will find something suspected of either body parts or body remains or objects originating from other human bodies," said Nyoman.

Until now, the Police have only been able to identify six bodies of 14 victims who were declared missing in the fire that occurred on Wednesday, January 15.

"From our results, we opened the Disaster Victim Identification (DVI) identification post, so 14 people have been declared missing according to the report, we have just released six. Mathematically, we still have how many more people we have to try to do," said Nyoman.