7 Days With No Results, Search Operations For Bayu Aditya, Missing At Sayang Beach, Heulang, Garut, Stopped

Officers explore the Santolo Beach area to look for a missing tourist on Sayang Heulang Beach (Via ANTARA)

GARUT - The joint SAR team has stopped the search for a tourist from Sumedang Regency who went missing in the waters of Sayang Heulang Beach, Garut Regency, West Java. The search operation has been ongoing for seven days but the victim has not been found.

"The search has been carried out to the fullest, but has not yielded any results, and the victim's family agrees that the search is stopped," said Head of the Operations and Alert Section of the Bandung Search and Rescue Office, Supriono through a press release in Garut, quoted from Antara, Thursday, May 12.

The victim is identified as Bayu Aditya (21), a resident of Jaya Mekar Cibuga, Sumedang Regency. Since it was reported missing and drowned in the Sayang Heulang Waterfall, Mancagahar Village, Pameungpeuk District, Garut, last Thursday, the Sar Team immediately moved to carry out a search operation.

The search process, he said, was carried out by dividing groups to search around the location of the missing victims and along the seas of the Garut waters, namely Santolo Beach to Rancabuaya Beach.

"A week after the drowning victim in the Sayang Heulang Waterfall was not found, according to the SAR operation plan, the search results were still nil," he said.

He conveyed that based on the rules and the results of the coordination of the joint SAR team and the families of the victims, they decided to stop the search process, and would continue if there were signs on the ground.

"The SAR operation is closed and will continue with monitoring if there are signs that lead to the discovery of the victim," he said.

Previously, the victim and her friend, Risa Aditya, fell while crossing the estuary at Sayang Heulang Beach, which borders Santolo Beach.

The victim on behalf of Risa was rescued, while another victim drowned and his whereabouts are unknown.

The joint search team involved, namely from the Bandung SAR Office (Tasikmalaya SAR Post), Garut BPBD, Garut Air Pol, Garut Firefighters, Garut Rebana, Pangandaran Navy Post, Persis Sigab, and Garut Tagana.