Pregnant Woman Who Disappeared During The Ngada Flash Flood Finally Found Dead, Her Husband Still Wanted By The Joint Military-Polri And SAR Team

Illustration. (Photo: Doc. Antara)

JAKARTA - Maria Goreti Dhiu (38), a victim of the flood and landslide disaster in Ngada Regency, who was pregnant with five months of pregnancy was found dead after the SAR team conducted a search.

"I just received information that a housewife who had been missing has found her body," said Head of Criminal Investigation Unit of the Ngada IPTU Police, I Ketut Rai Artika, quoted from Antara, Saturday, September 4.

This was conveyed in connection with the development of the search for two victims of landslides and flash floods who were husband and wife in Malapedho village, Inerie sub-district, Ngada district.

He said that the search process, which involved a joint team from the TNI/Polri, BPBD and SAR, was carried out at the victim's house and also to the beach.

"The victim was found near his house in a lifeless state because it was buried by a landslide," he said.

Currently, added Rai, there is still one more victim who is missing. The missing victim is the husband of Maria Goreti Dhiu.

"We are still searching with heavy equipment until now, at the location where his wife was found," he said.

The two of them were also swept away by the flood because their house which was near the river was also swept away by the flash flood.

Previously, the flash floods and landslides that occurred in Malapedho village, Inerie sub-district, Ngada district, Saturday, September 4, at around 00.30 WITA, were allegedly due to high rainfall that occurred throughout Friday, September 3.