Dimming In Ciliwung River, A 13-year-old Boy Found Dead A Day Later

Photo: Jakarta SAR

The joint SAR team found a 13-year-old child who had drowned in Ciliwung River since Monday, January 23 yesterday afternoon. When found at 18.00 WIB, the poor boy was already dead. Head of the Jakarta SAR Office, Fazzli, revealed that the victim was found floating within a 3 KM radius from the scene and immediately evacuated to the funeral home. "The victim was finally found by the combined SAR element this evening at Manggarai Water Gate," Fazzli said in his statement, Tuesday, January 24. Fazzli explained that at the time of the incident, a boy named Muhammad Wirlangga played in the Ciliwung River Bridge, Bukit Duri, Tebet, South Jakarta with four of his friends. While playing in the middle of the river, the victim could not swim and drowned by the current, until now the victim has not been found. When drowning at 15.00 WIB yesterday, hundreds of joint SAR personnel were deployed to search for Muhammad Wirlangga until the evening. However, said Fazzli, the results at that time were nil due to the lack of light on the ground. Therefore, in the morning, joint SAR personnel were divided into three search teams, namely the first team conducted a search using a rubber boat (rubber boat) with a distance of three kilometers from the scene. "Then the second team conducted a visual search of the land route with a distance of three kilometers from the scene, and the third team conducted a dive around the scene of the incident at a radius of ten meters," he explained. The search was carried out by dividing the search area into three locations. The first team conducted a search using a rubber boat to search the Ciliwung River flow up to a radius of 3 kilometers from the scene, the second team conducted a visual search of the land route combing the banks of the ciliwung river up to a radius of 3 KM from the scene, and the third team conducted a dive around the scene at a radius of 10 meters.