The Tasikmalaya City Government Helps Trains For Victims' Hospitals To Sink At Madasari Beach Pangandaran

SAR conducted a search for missing students in the waters of Madasari Beach, Pangandaran, West Java, Friday (8/7/2022). (ANTARA/HO-Basarnas)

TASIKMALAYA - The City Government (Pemkot) of Tasikmalaya has prepared assistance for eight students, including 3 dead and one still missing, in an incident of drowning in the Madasari Beach area, Pangandaran.

The Head of the Regional Disaster Management Agency (BPBD) of Tasikmalaya City, Ucu Anwar, said that his party was preparing the process of searching for evacuation and hospitalization costs.

"We will help with financing at the hospital there, as well as sending corpses assisted with payment," said Ucu Anwar in Tasikmalaya, quoted from Antara, Friday, July 8.

He said that he had dispatched a team from BPBD and other agencies to help the joint SAR team search for a missing student in the waters of Pangandaran.

"Sudah mengirimkan satu tim lima orang satgas dan satu orang kolap untuk bergabung dengan Basarnas di Pangandaran," tuturnya.

He said the Tasikmalaya City Government received information that a number of students from Cibeureum District were swept away by the waves while swimming at Madasari Beach, Pangandaran Regency, Thursday, July 7.

The incident left three people dead and one person still being searched for by joint officers in Pangandaran.

Ucu said a team from the Tasikmalaya City BPBD had moved shortly after receiving information to help search for missing victims, as well as help repatriate the bodies to the funeral home in Tasikmalaya.

"We are conducting a search and the process of returning the bodies to the funeral home, since yesterday at 9 o'clock it has been at the location," he said.

He conveyed that the Tasikmalaya City Government had also alerted a number of vehicles to help with the repatriation of survivors, and ambulances for bodies and those being treated at the hospital.

"Earlier, we dispatched a car with the rest of the group and two ambulances to bring the victim who is not yet stable," he said.

Previously, a group of tourists from the Nurul Huda Mosque Youth Association, Ciherang Village, Cibeureum District, Tasikmalaya City traveled to Pangandaran.

They swam around the Fish Auction Site (TPI) Legok Jawa, Cimerak District, Pangandaran Regency, unexpectedly they were dragged by the waves causing three people to die, one person is missing, and the other is safe.