Already Closed With Police Line, Officers Unload Fiber Optic Cable Digging Because There Is Still 1 Person Trapped
Officers evacuate victims of fiber optic cable excavation in Tangerang City/Photo: IST

TANGERANG – The Tangerang City Regional Disaster Management Agency (BPBD) again found one person who died in a fiber optic cable excavation culvert on Royal 1 Housing Road, RT04/01, North Poris Plawad Village, Cipondoh, Tangerang City. If it was previously mentioned that 3 people died, now the number of victims has increased by one to four people.

As of 10.30 western Indonesia time, officers were still carrying out the evacuation process of one body trapped in the culvert. The evacuation process was dramatic. Hundreds of residents were seen crowding around the location of the Telkom worker's work accident.

The victim who was left in the sewer, when he was evacuated his body had started to stiffen.

"Thank God, it has been found," said one resident who witnessed the evacuation process, Thursday, October 7.

Apparently, Azis Amzah, a rescue officer from the Tangerang City BPBD who dived to lift the victim up and rest for a while to drink water.

Previously, it was reported that there were 4 victims of gas poisoning in the sewers. Three people died at the scene and one person survived. It was later discovered that there was one other victim who was left behind and drowned in the sewer.

In fact, the culverts have been closed tightly and have been given a police line after the crime scene has been processed. After a few hours, the police received a report that the victim of air poisoning was left behind by one person.


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