DIY - The joint SAR team found the victim's body drifting about 100 meters from the missing report location at the mouth of the Opak River, Sanden District, Bantul Regency, Yogyakarta Special Region (DIY). The victim was reportedly swept away on Thursday 4 August morning.
"The victim was found by the Joint SAR Team on Friday (August 5) at around 00.30 WIB, it was found about 100 meters west of the incident location," said Commander of the Yogyakarta National SAR Agency (Basarnas) Team, Dedi Prasetya in a written statement, quoted from Between, Friday August 5th.
According to him, the victim's body, whose identity has not been identified, was then evacuated by the Joint SAR Team and immediately taken to the Bhayangkara Police Hospital, DIY.
"With the discovery of one victim drifting at the mouth of the Opak River, the SAR operation is closed and all elements involved are returned to their respective units," he said.
He explained that before the victim's body was found, the search for the drowning victim had been carried out since the first day of SAR operations on Thursday, August 4, but until 17.00 WIB had not been found, the search was temporarily suspended for evaluation.
Then, at night, the Joint SAR Team carried out monitoring around the mouth of the Opak River and the location of the incident, sweeping started at 20.00 WIB. However there was no search in the water by the Joint SAR team.
"The search last night was only carried out on land on the side of the river and monitoring around the location of the incident," he said.
Meanwhile, Public Relations of the Yogyakarta Basarnas, Pipit Eriyanto, said that the incident on Thursday, August 4, started when the victim was crossing the road from the east to the estuary to the west, then carried away by the estuary current to the south.
"The victim had waved and was swept away by the current north of the estuary towards the river vortex, then the victim was not seen again," he said.
He said that after receiving a report from anglers at 09.15 WIB, members of the Special Region 4 Rescue Satlinmas who were at the location, and members of the TNI AL Samas, Ditpolairud and Satpolair as well as Babinkamtibmas and Babinsa in Tirtohargo Village went straight to the scene.
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