TERNATE - The Search and Rescue Office of the Ternate Basarnas, North Maluku (Malut) deployed personnel to search for nine people who were reported missing in the Halmahera forest on Wednesday, November 16 yesterday.
Seven of the missing victims were foreign nationals while the rest were Indonesian.
"Of the nine people who were declared missing and in the search, seven of the victims were foreign nationals (WNA) and two were local residents," said Head of Ternate Basarnas Fathur Rahman in Ternate, quoted from Antara, Thursday, November 17.
Nine people, based on explanations from local travel agents conducted an expedition in the forest of West Halmahera Regency. At around 17.30 WIT, after receiving reports from tourist agents, the Tobelo SAR Post rescue team was deployed to the scene of the incident using a rescue car.
Meanwhile, previously, Basarnas Ternate managed to find a husband and wife couple who were missing in the Tabona forest of Ternate City named Aris Adipati (72 years old) and Nonco Kalangi (66 years old) who were finally found safe.
According to him, both were found when the team conducted a search in the area around the location where the victim's belongings were found and along the Tongole river.
The joint SAR team was divided into two teams in carrying out a search with a radius of 2 KM south of the location where the victim's belongings were found, then the team carried out a search with a radius of 2 KM south from the location where the victim's belongings were found and along the Tongole River to the village.
The joint SAR team managed to find the victim at coordinates that had been determined to be around 0.28 km from the location where the victim's belongings were found but in a weak condition, then the victim was evacuated to the Chasan Boeseorie Ternate Hospital for further medical treatment.
With the two couples found safe, the SAR operation was closed and all elements involved were returned to their respective units, said Fathur Rahman.
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