Police Send Inafis Team And Forensic Lab For Train Accidents On The KCJB Project That 2 People Died

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The National Police Headquarters has dispatched a Forensic and Inafis Police Laboratory Team to help the West Java Regional Police check the scene of the accident involving a technical train and fast train locomotive on the Jakarta-Bandung High Speed Rail (KCJB) project in West Bandung Regency, West Java. Police Public Relations Division, Inspector General Dedi Prasetyo said, the team checked at the scene with the relevant ministries and institutions.

"The Labfor team and from the National Police Headquarters, then Inafis coated the West Java Regional Police. The West Nawa branch laboratory including the West Java branch of Inafis has dropped to the TKP," he said, Monday, December 19, quoted by Antara.

This incident caught the attention of network residents and amateur video footage of the incident circulated widely in cyberspace. According to the two-star general, the police team together with related ministries and agencies traced the cause of the accident.

He stated that in the accident there were fatalities, namely two people died and five people were seriously injured. Regarding the accident, he said, investigators from the West Java Regional Police had examined and asked for information from a number of witnesses at the scene. "There are approximately 18 witnesses who have been examined by West Java Police investigators who I received last night," he said.

He said efforts to find out the cause of the train accident were still in process, not only from the police, but also experts from the National Transportation Accident Committee, including from PT KAI. "If necessary, it will involve outsiders as a provider of the train. So the results will be comprehensively submitted to the media," he said.

According to him, the Inafis Team has identified victims of train accidents, either dead or injured. Then, he continued, today the police team checked everything that became the crossing route, collision point, and train used for the trial.

"We will check everything. This requires a process," he said.

An accident involving a technical train and a high-speed train locomotive on the Jakarta-Bandung High-speed Train (KCJB) project occurred in Cempaka Village, West Bandung Regency, West Java, Sunday (18/12) at around 16.00 WIB. The train's LOcomotive moved quickly from the direction of Padalarang to Jakarta until it hit a technical train that was off the railroad tracks.