Jambi Basarnas Still Searching For Lost Anglers In Batang Merangin River

Jambi Basarnas on the Batang Merangin River/Photo: Antara

JAMBI - The Jambi Basarnas team is still searching for residents who were informed that they had drowned while fishing in the Batang Merangin River, Muara Emat, Kerinci Regency, Jambi Province. declared missing while going fishing in the Batang Merangin River and the search is still ongoing," said the Coordinator of the Kerinci SAR Post, Ujang Sudani, through a statement received on Tuesday, February 22. Based on information received by Basarnas, victim Adi went fishing on Saturday ( 19/2), but the family stated that he had not returned home and was reported to the police which was then forwarded to the local Basarnas. Then, upon the report, the Kerinci SAR team immediately went down to search until it entered the third day. The joint SAR team consisting of Basarnas , TNI, Polsek, BPBD and the community will conduct a five-kilometer sweep with the edge sweep method According to him, the obstacles faced by the team during the search were the river current was very strong and there were large stones, so the team focused more on conducting sweeps through the riverbank and some local residents also dived around the scene." The search results on Sunday, February 20, the joint team found the victim's boots under the rocks of the Batang Merangin River and hopefully this will be a bright spot and find the victim as soon as possible," said Ujang Sudani. his friend was fishing and not long after his friend called the victim to come home with him. But the victim did not return his friend's call and was found missing and reported on Sunday (20/2). The Jambi Basarnas team received the information at 18.00 WIB and the Kerinci SAR Post team was deployed to conduct a search so far.