Child Drowns In The Cimanis River, Cirebon SAR Convicts Diving Team

CIREBON - The joint SAR team deployed a team of divers to search for a child who has not been found after drowning in the Cimanis River, Cirebon Regency, West Java, on Tuesday, July 5.

"Our search continues, by deploying a team of divers," said Cirebon SAR Post Rescue Team Commander Edy Pamungkas when contacted, quoted from Antara, Wednesday, July 6.

According to him, the SAR team is again searching for one victim on behalf of Adam (11), who has not been found, after drowning in the Cimanis River, on Tuesday, July 5.

He said, deploying a team of divers to look for victims, because the depth of the river in the area is quite deep, in the range of 4-6 meters.

In addition, continued Edy, the SAR team also conducted a search by combing the water using the LCR around the location of the incident.

"Until this afternoon, the victim has not been found. And the team continues to search around the location," he said.

He added that the SAR teams involved were the Cirebon SAR Post Basarnas, Cirebon Police Polairud, Koramil, Satpol-PP, Village Apparatus, Taruna, Gurila, and the local community.

According to him, the SAR team is also still having problems with the depth of the water, as well as roots and twigs that are in the water, and made worse by the rain that occurs at night.

"The obstacles encountered in the field, the depths where there are many pillars and roots that make it difficult for divers and also last night there was a flood because it was raining so hard upstream," he said.

On Tuesday, July 5, the SAR team received reports of two children drowning in the Cimanis River, of which one had been found dead, and the other was still being searched.