SAR Team Searches For 4-Year-Old Children Who Are Carried Away By River Currents In Tasikmalaya

A number of joint SAR officers conducted a search for the victim of a child who had been lost by the river current in Bojongsari Village, Culamega/DOK ANTARA District.

TASIKMALAYA - The joint Search and Rescue (SAR) team searched for a four-year-old child who was missing after being carried away by the Bojong River in Bojongsari Village, Curamega District, Tasikmalaya Regency, West Java, today.

The head of the Disaster Preparedness Cadets Coordination Forum (Tagana) of Tasikmalaya Regency, Jembar Adisetya, said that his party and other SAR team officers had been dispatched to search for a child named Muhammad Rojaby Al Hidayat, a resident of Culamega.

"The cause of the incident is thought to have been carried away by the very swift river current," said Jembar in Tasikmalaya, Antara, Tuesday, March 11.

He said that the disaster that happened to a child occurred during heavy rain, last Monday afternoon when the victim was playing in his yard which happened to be close to the river.

The victim's parents, he said, were in the yard of the house, then entered the house to pick up a cell phone, but when they left the house, the child was no longer there.

"Her mother went inside for a while to take a 'mobile phone' for about 10 minutes inside the house, then the mother left, the child was gone," he said.

With this incident, a number of residents and local government officials searched for victims, until the next day the whereabouts of the victims had not been found.

Head of the Bandung SAR Office, Ade Dian Permana, added that his party had deployed a Tasikmalaya SAR Post Rescue Team to search for a child who was reported to have been carried away by the Bojong River in Curamega District.

"Today, the joint SAR team will carry out a search with the SAR operation plan, namely the river sweeping as far as 2 km from the scene," he said.