JABAR - The joint SAR team and the surrounding community are continuing to search for a teenager who was swept away by the current and drowned while playing at Mekarsari Village Beach, Indramayu Regency, West Java (West Java) on Sunday, August 21.
"Since 07.00 WIB, the joint SAR team has begun to search again for Muhamad Rizki (12), who drowned while playing on the beach," said Head of the Bandung SAR Office Jumaril via written message, quoted from Antara, Monday 22 August.
According to him, on the second day of the search, his party conducted a search by dividing into two teams, to look for victims around the location when they were dragged by the current and drowned.
He continued, with a search area of about 26.6 KM. The first SRU searches for victims using a Basarnas LCR unit around the location, while the second SRU searches for victims using the Indonesian Navy LCR from the location leading to the Sumur Adem PLTU.
"Based on the SAR 'map prediction', the distribution of victims leads to the southwest of the incident location," he said.
He added that on Sunday, August 21 at around 15.10 WIB, the Bandung SAR Office officers received information about the incident of teenagers being dragged by the current at Mekarsari Village Beach, Patrol District, at around 10.30 WIB.
Based on the report, Jumaril continued, the incident began when the victim on behalf of Muhamad Rizki, a resident of the Pilangsari Block, Mekarsari Village, was playing with five of his friends on the beach. But not long after the victim was swept away by the current and drowned.
"We are also coordinating intensely with the Cirebon SAR Post and the Indramayu Polair regarding the development of the incident," he said.
The SAR elements involved included the Bandung Basarnas, the Cirebon SAR Post, the Indramayu Regency BPBD, the Indonesian Navy Posmat Eretan Wetan, the Indramayu Police Satpolairud, the Anjatan Koramil, the Patrol Police, PT. PJB UBJOM PLTU Indramayu and the local community.
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