4-year-old Boy Who Drowned In The River Sabi Tangerang, Found Dead Floating

Residents and rescue teams managed to find a 4-year-old boy who was dragged and drowned in Sabi River, Tangerang/ Photo: IST

JAKARTA - The joint SAR team finally found the body of a child named Anas Hakiki (4) who had disappeared and was drowned in the Sabi River, Cibodas District, Tangerang City, Banten. The victim was found dead on Thursday, May 12, noon.

The joint SAR team found the victim at a radius of approximately 1.5 KM from the scene of the incident floating on the Sabi Riverbank.

"We found the victim based on information from residents who saw signs of the victim and we immediately evacuated the body to the funeral home," said Head of the Jakarta SAR Office as SAR Mission Coordinator (SMC) in SAR operations, Hendra Sudirman to VOI, Thursday, 12 May.

Hendra said that the process of finding the victim's body was the result of the hard work of a number of teams in the SAR operation to search for victims.

"Finally the victim can be found," he said.

The search for victims continued on Thursday, May 12, in the morning. Officers divided the search area into two.

"The first team conducted a search by sweeping along the Sabi River using a rubber boat up to a radius of 6 km," he said.

Next, the second team conducted a search by visual observation by land on the banks of the Sabi River up to a radius of 4 KM from the scene.

"Dozens of joint search and rescue personnel have been deployed in the search and rescue operation, which is entering its second day," he said.

Previously, it was reported that the joint SAR team was still searching for the drowned Sepang child in Kali Sabi, Cibodas District, Tangerang City, Banten. The search was conducted on Wednesday 11 May, the evening.

The drowning victim named Anas Hakiki (4). This tragic incident was experienced by the victim when he was watching the flood with his father in front of PT Luxtera on Wednesday 11 May at around 16.30 WIB.

At the time of the incident, the victim's father saw the flood while washing his motorbike without paying attention to the condition of his son. Suddenly the victim fell into the stream of Kali Sabi and was swept away by the current.