Grandma Epon, 83 Years Of Loss, Was Dried By The Waters Of The Cisokan River, Terloleh When Washing Feet

JAKARTA - The joint SAR team from the Cianjur BPBD is looking for a grandmother named Epon (83), a resident of Ciranjang Village, Cianjur, West Java, who was reported missing by the current of the Cisokan River when she wanted to return home after farming.

From the information collected, Epon often goes to the fields every day. Finally, he was seen washing his feet on the riverbank, but after a while, residents no longer saw Epon's grandmother's body.

Residents suspect that Epon's grandmother was carried away by a fairly heavy current because previously it was raining quite heavily.

Residents reported to village and sub-district officials to the Ciranjang Police and Cianjur BPBD. The family who first came to the location had conducted a search, but to no avail.

Secretary of BPBD Cianjur, Rudi Wibowo in Cianjur said the officers who received the report immediately coordinated with a number of parties to conduct a search by searching the middle and riverside so that the victim's body could be found immediately.

"The coordination search was carried out with the Bandung SAR Team, the Cianjur, Retana, and PMI Cianjur Volunteers. Currently, searches are being carried out at a number of points with an extended radius starting from the location of the victim being reported missing," said Rudi, Wednesday, September 21.

Rudi explained that the team was divided into three groups with a river crossing pattern using a rubber boat and walking along the riverbank with the hope that the victim's body would be found soon. His party suspected that this 83-year-old grandmother had slipped while washing her feet on the riverbank.

"We are trying to maximize the search, although it is constrained by weather, especially before the evening the rainfall that falls is still high with an intensity of more than two hours," he said as quoted by Antara.

PMI Cianjur volunteer, Deni Rismanda, said the search was divided into three groups with different locations but the same pattern from the middle and edge of the river with a radius of 1 to 2 kilometers from the location of the victim was first reported missing because the river current was very strong.

"For the first search at the Cisokan location by following the middle of the river using rubber boats and following the edge of the river in two other locations, Block Nusa 2 and Blok Calincing. It is estimated that the victim's body has been carried away because the river current is very strong," said Deni.