Bengkulu Basarnas Is Looking For Residents Who Are Hanyut In The River

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The Bengkulu Basarnas is still looking for one person with the initials EJ (40) who was carried by the current on the Padang Guci River, Air Dry Village, Kaur Regency, Bengkulu.

Head of the Bengkulu Basarnas Office, M. Arafah, the incident occurred on Friday (20/1) at around 17.00 WIB when the victim and husband wanted to return home from gardening. "The victim is a resident of Air Dry Village, Padang Guci, downstream and when the victim and her husband wanted to cross the river, the victim EJ was swept away by the current," said Arafah in Bengkulu City, Saturday, January 21. After receiving this information, Basarnas immediately coordinated with the nearest SAR unit.

At 20.45 WIB, his party immediately dispatched a rescue team from the South Bengkulu SAR Alert Unit to conduct a search and rescue of the victim. In addition to dispatching a team, Basarnas also uses search support equipment such as a rescue carrier car. Then a set of Landing Craft Rubber (LCR) oray rubber boats, outboard motors, a set of water equipment, navigation equipment, communication equipment and medical equipment.

During the search process, a team of nine people was divided into two groups such as group one using the LCR belonging to the Bengkulu Basarnas and other groups conducting sweeps around the river. said Arafah quoted by Antara.