An 83-Year-Old Grandma Who Disappeared In Cisokan River In Cianjur Was Found, Her Condition Was Only Bones

Residents showed the location where grandma Epon was found in a bamboo clump on the banks of the Cisokan River, Cianjur. (Antara)

JABAR - Cianjur Police found grandma Epon (83) who was reported to have drowned in the Cisokan River, Ciranjang District, Cianjur, West Java (West Java) on Wednesday, September 28.

Ciranjang police chief AKP Dadan Nugraha said the Ciranjang villager was found dead after being reported missing for eight days. When found his condition was only bones.

"After the search was stopped, we received reports from residents regarding the finding of bones suspected to be grandma Epon, who was reported missing, drowned in a bamboo grove on the bank of a river," he said in Cianjur, West Java, quoted from Antara, Wednesday, September 28.

AKP Dadan explained that the joint SAR team had conducted a search for victims by tracing in the middle and on the banks of the river. However, the search was closed on Tuesday 27 September, after seven days of fruitless searching.

Furthermore, AKP Dadan said, the victim was caught in a bamboo clump that was not clearly visible to passersby. Officers who received the report immediately evacuated the victim's bones.

Members of the Cianjur Police immediately handed over the victim's bones to the family for burial.

"We have submitted it directly to the family for burial," he added.

A resident who first discovered the whereabouts of the victim, Ahmad Sanusi (29), said that he could not believe his eyes. He smelled a stench stinging his nose, when he was about to fish around the location where grandma Epon's body was found.

However, after approaching the cliffside above the Cisokan River, he and other witnesses, Suhanda (55) immediately informed the local authorities and then to the Ciranjang Police Headquarters, regarding the discovery of the corpse with the remaining bones, known to grandma Epon.

"We have heard that there is a grandmother who has gone missing since a week ago and a search has been carried out, but we were surprised when we crossed to go fishing and smelled a stinging stench coming from the cliffside above the river, I only realized when I looked closely," he said.