The Bali Provincial Government (Pemprov) is now focusing on the phase of cleaning up debris and debris due to floods that hit Denpasar on Wednesday (10/9) after the 15th victim was found tonight.

"Cleaning up trash in the river is also still continuing at Badung and Kumbasari markets," said Bali Governor Wayan Koster, Thursday, September 11.

The governor targets the cleaning process to take place more quickly, if possible, so that tomorrow it can be completed because with that the Bali Provincial Government can proceed to the next step.

"(Infrastructure improvement stage) not yet, there is still time to save victims. Later, the entire existence of the building on the banks of this river will be evaluated, because after all this is a big river where in the rainy season there is a fairly heavy flow of water, so it needs to be considered in the future," said Koster.

For the discovery of the body of the 15th victim named Maimunah (75) in Tukad Badung, Governor Koster, who has been monitoring the location since morning, expressed his gratitude to the TNI and Basarnas for searching for two days.

Danrem 163/Wira Satya Brigadier General Ida I Dewa Agung Hadisaputra added that with the evacuation of the body of the Maimunah victim at 21:30 WITA, all searches were completed.

"Thankfully at night the body was found, our efforts from yesterday have found results tonight, we previously predicted that the deceased's position under the building we tried repeatedly to lift the stone, finally the members carried out activities manually," he said.

For information, the victims who died from major floods in Bali, especially Denpasar, Badung, Gianyar, and Jembrana on Wednesday (10/9) as many as 9 people.

Meanwhile, from morning to this afternoon Basarnas Bali recorded five victims found in the names of Ni Wayan Werni (58), Ni Nyoman Sari (70), Tasnim (53), Ni Ketut Merta (63), and Farwa Husein (32), so that with the discovery of Maimunah, the total number of victims who died until tonight was 15 people.


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