One Passenger Of The Sinking Ship In Halmahera Has Not Been Found

The SAR Team for the evacuation of the sinking ship in Halmahera/ Photo; ANTARA

The SAR Team for the evacuation of victims of the sinking ship in the waters of Halmahera

JAKARTA - The Ternate Search and Rescue Office together with the SAR team evacuated the victims of the sinking ship KM Alis Mulia who carried hundreds of passengers and agricultural products from the East Halmahera route to Tobelo, North Halmahera, North Maluku (Malut). However, one passenger has not been found.

"Currently, the passengers have been evacuated, but one passenger is still in the process of being searched," said Head of the Operations and Alert Section of the Ternate SAR Office, Bram Madya, ANTARA, Sunday, December 15.

His party received information from KUPP Tobelo that there had been a shipping accident KM Alis Mulia loaded with kopra and hundreds of passengers from East Halmahera to Tobelo, North Halmahera Karam in the waters of Tagalaya Island.

Bram said, after receiving information from KUPP Tobelo that there was a ship loaded with kopra on the Dorsago - Tobelo route ran aground in the waters of Tagalaya Island and needed SAR assistance.

At 22.00 WIT, Tobelo's SAR Post Rescue Team together with elements involved moved to Tagalaya Island to evacuate using the Citra Bahari Ship and the Tobelo KUPP Patrol Vessel. Kata

Then, the Joint SAR Team arrived at Tagalaya Island at 22:15 WIT, immediately carried out the evacuation process using a passenger speed boat that helped, so that at around 23.55 WIT the speed boat carrying 16 passengers survived KM Alis Mulia arrived at Tobelo Port.

Then the joint team collects data.

He said, around 01.19 WIT, 191 passengers and crew members were successfully evacuated, then the overall data collection was carried out at Tobelo Port.

The results of the data collection carried out were one person who had not been found and the KM Alis Mulia ship had sunk on Tagalaya Island approximately 50 meters from the shoreline.

The search for one passenger victim who has not been found will continue on Sunday tomorrow at 07.30 WIT today.

He said that in the search for the victim, the Tobelo SAR Post Rescue Team, Tobelo KSOP, Tobelo AL Post, Halut Polair Post, Halut Police, 1508/Tobelo Kodim, SAR Potential and local community.

As is known, in the disaster, the number of victims was 192 people, of which 190 people were found, one person named Evan (4 years) died and one victim named Abdul Waris Hadi (80 years) was in the search process.

Based on the data, the ship with a GT 120 capacity carried 10 crew members and 182 passengers with the Dorsago route to Tobelo, North Halmahera.*