ACEH - Basarnas sweeping in the waters of the Pulo Aceh Islands, Pulo Aceh District paid off. Three bodies were found and evacuated in the Aceh Besar Regency area.
Head of the Operations and Alert Section of the Banda Aceh Basarnas SAR M Fathur Rachman in Banda Aceh, Sunday, said the three unidentified bodies consisted of two men and one woman.
"The evacuation of victims took place in the last two days. The age of the victims ranged from 35 to 40 years. The three victims were found floating in the waters of Pulo Aceh, Aceh Besar District," he said as quoted by Antara, Sunday, March 31.
M Fathur Rachman said the evacuation process began when fishermen found bodies floating at two points. The first point is in the waters near Gampong Pasi Janeng and the second point is in the waters of Lambaro Beach.
The discovery of the floating corpse, he said, was reported to the Pulo Aceh Police, Aceh Besar Police. Furthermore, the Pulo Aceh Police informed Basarnas asking for help in the evacuation process.
Furthermore, the Basarnas team dispatched an evacuation team using an RIB boat or sea rider from Ulee Lheue Port, Banda Aceh City. The evacuation point is 12 nautical miles away.
"Two male bodies were evacuated on Sunday (31/3) and one female body was evacuated on Saturday (30/3). The three bodies were evacuated to Ulee Lheue Harbor and then taken to Zainoel Abidin Hospital, Banda Aceh City," he said.
M Fathur Rachman said the weather during the evacuation was cloudy with wind speeds reaching eight knots. Meanwhile, the wave height ranges from 0.5 to 1.5 meters.
"In addition to Basarnas personnel, the teams involved in the evacuation included Police personnel, PMI Banda Aceh, radio communities, and fishermen. With the completion of the evacuation, SAR operations were closed and the personnel involved were returned to their respective units," he said.
Previously, the Basarnas team also evacuated the body of an unidentified woman aged an estimated 15 years in the waters of Pulo Aceh, Friday (29/3).
In addition to the waters of Pulo Aceh, the SAR team also evacuated the bodies of unidentified women aged an estimated 40 years in the waters of Pulau Weh, Sabang City, on Friday (29/3) night.
There has been no official information on where the unidentified body came from. It is suspected that the unidentified body that was evacuated was an immigrant from the Rohingya, whose ship sank in the waters of West Aceh Regency some time ago.
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