The National Police Disaster Victim Identification (DVI) team has not been able to identify 26 victims who were found dead due to flash floods in Salareh Aia, Palembayan District, Agam Regency.
West Sumatra Police Chief Inspector General Gatot Tri Suryanta said people who lost their families were asked to contact service 100 or come to posts located at Bhayangkara Hospital and Health Post in Palembayan.
"Relation to service 100 or come to existing posts at Bhayangkara Hospital and the Health Post in Palembayan," he said as quoted by ANTARA, Thursday, December 4.
He said that before the 26 victims were buried, there had been a process of testing the victim's DNA. This is to ensure which family is missing and to ascertain which family it is.
"If there is a DNA test, then the victim (who) can be known," he said.
He admitted that the place for storing the bodies at Bhayangkara Hospital was not enough time ago. But after being coordinated with BNPB and the Riau Police, he was assisted with a cooling device or container.
"Now the body can be stored until the DNA test results come out," he said.
Currently, the search for victims who are still missing continues and the search will be evaluated later.
The search for victims was also assisted by four excavators because some places could not search manually.
After that involving K9 as many as 10 dogs assisted by the National Police Headquarters and K9 having the ability up to 50 meters to sniff out.
"If there are bodies at the location, then K9 goes to the location and is demolished by the Police SAR team, TNI, and Basarnas," said the West Sumatra Police Chief.
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