Grinning In Pain, The Rescue Team Removes The Serum Bottle Cap From The 6-year-old Boy's Middle Finger

Officer opens a bottle cap that is clamping the hand of a 6 year old boy in Cipayung, East Jakarta/ Photo: IST

JAKARTA - The sobs of a boy with the initials U (6) broke out when the East Jakarta Sub-dept. of Fire and Rescue (Sudin Gulkarmat) officers removed the serum bottle cap from the poor boy's middle finger. The boy was crying in pain because his fingers caught the bottle cap.

Head of the Ops Section of the East Jakarta Fire and Rescue (Gulkarmat) Sub-dept., Gatot Sulaeman, explained that his party received a report on the incident Thursday, March 10 at around 23.30 WIB, in a house in Gang Sunter, Cipayung District, East Jakarta.

Gatot said, the boy's middle finger could be stuck in the serum bottle cap which looks like a ring. The incident occurred when the boy was playing with the object at his house.

"At first the toy closed the serum (bottle) and kept crying (his finger) couldn't be removed. His parents immediately contacted the Cipayung District Fire Department," Gatot said when confirmed by reporters, Friday, March 11, afternoon.

In order to evacuate the bottle caps, his party mobilized three East Jakarta Gulkarmat Sub-dept. Rescue personnel.

Using a mini drill and tweezers, the bottle cap that was tightening the middle finger of the boy with the initial U was finally released.

"The evacuation started at 24.00 WIB and finished Friday, March 11 in the morning around 00.15 WIB. The serum bottle cap came off, the evacuation went smoothly," he said.