50 SAR Team Personnel Deployed To Search For Missing Fishermen In Lake Maninjau, West Sumatra

The Agam Regency Government Joint Team is looking for missing victims in Lake Maninjau, Friday (12/9). BETWEEN/HO-BPBD Agam.

SUMBAR - The Agam Regency Government (Pemkab) in West Sumatra (West Sumatra) dispatched a joint team of 50 people to look for Dodi Prinando (40), a fisherman who went missing while looking for fish in Lake Maninjau, Friday, September 12 morning.

Head of Emergency and Logistics Division of Agam BPBD Ichwan Pratama Danda said the 50 people came from BPBD Agam, Polri, TNI, Agam Fire Department, nagari government, Nagari Bayua Disaster Preparedness Group (KSB), Tanjung Raya KSB, and the community.

"We also used two boats to find the drowning victim in Nagari (Village) Sungai Batang, Tanjung Raya District," he said in Lubuk Basung, Friday, which was confiscated by Antara.

He said the joint team was looking for the victim's whereabouts by tracing the point of the missing victim in Lake Maninjau by two boats.

After that, monitoring through the edge of the volcanic lake, but the victim has not been found.

"The team is trying to find victims and so far they have not been found," he said.

He told that the victim and his friend, Awaluddin (49) went to shoot fish on Thursday, September 11 at around 22.00 WIB and rested at 24.00 WIB.

Then, they took a break until Friday, September 12 at around 02.30 WIB. At 03.00 WIB, Nagari residents, Nagari Sungai Batang, Tanjung Raya District, continued to shoot fish into Lake Maninjau along with Awaluddin.

At that time the victim was using a boat and his friend did not use a boat. Some time later, his friend waited for the victim and the victim did not come.

However, residents saw an empty boat in the lake at 06.00 WIB and then residents approached the boat.

Residents saw that there were only fish, clothes and genres in the boat. Then, residents reported it to the family and the nagari government.

"The nagari government reported the incident to us and immediately deployed the Task Force to the location to coordinate with the nagari government," he said.