Grandfather Who Disappeared 3 Days While Gardening In South Bolmong Was Found Dead

The joint SAR team found an old man who had been missing for three days while going to gardening dead. ANTARA/HO-Humas Basarnas Manado

MANADO - The joint SAR team found Hamin Podomi's grandfather (62) a resident of Tobayagan Village, South Bolaang Mongondow (Bolmong) Regency, dead after missing for three days while going gardening.

"On the second day of the search, today the victim was found dead," said the Head of the Manado Search and Rescue Office (Basarnas) Monce Brury in Manado as reported by ANTARA, Wednesday, August 24.

On the second day of the search operation, joint SAR teams such as Basarnas, BPBD, Koramil, Pinolosiaan Police, PT JRBM, Tagana and the local community were carried out by sweeping the victim's garden.

They also searched the river the victim passed and searched using a rubber boat.

In the search, the joint SAR team always coordinates both the teams involved in the field and the people around Tobayagan Village who see the characteristics of the victims.

At 15.47 WITA the joint SAR team managed to find the victim on the seafront about 2.5 km from the point of occurrence of the missing victim.

"We appreciate the joint SAR team that has carried out the search operation, which today entered the second day of searching and the victim was found dead," he said.

The victim Hamin Podomi, a resident of Tobayagan Village, Pinolosiaan District, South Bolaang Mongondow Regency, North Sulawesi, has been missing since Monday (22/8).

Prior to reporting this incident to Basarnas, the local community carried out an independent search together until 23.00 WITA, but had not found any victims.

The victim was reported missing to the Basarnas office on Tuesday (23/8). At that time the victim went to a plantation in Tobayagan Village.

It is known that the victim was gardening through the river at that time, which at that time was fast and it was estimated that the victim was lost in the river current.