SAR Team Finds Bodies Of Missing East Sumba Residents In Ngaru Wai River

The SAR team evacuated the body of Rinto Kambaru Windi (27), a resident of Marada Mun Village, in Kamabata Mapambuhang District, East Sumba Regency/ANTARA.

The joint SAR team in East Sumba Regency, East Nusa Tenggara Province found the body of a resident of Marada Mundi Village, Kamabata Mapambuhang, dead after being reported missing while shooting fish in the Ngaru Wai River. "The victim has been found by the joint SAR team in a search operation on the second day. When it was found the victim was already dead," said Head of the Kupang Search and Rescue Office (Basarnas) I Putu Sudayana in Kupang, Antara, Thursday, May 4. The victim named Rinto Kambaru Windi (27), a resident of Marada Mundi Village, Kamabata Mapambuhang District, was reported missing while going fishing on the Ngaru Wai River, Marada Mundi Village, Kamabata Mapambuhang District, on Tuesday, May 2. According to him, the victim's family together with residents of Marada Mundi Village had conducted a search effort on the Ngaru Wai River but to no avail. The village government of Marada Mundi then provided information to the Kupang Basarnas about the disappearance of a resident of Marada Mundi Village while going fishing on the Ngaru Wai River. "After we received a report from the government of Marada Mundi Village, we immediately dispatched a SAR team from the Waingapu SAR Post to the scene to carry out SAR operations to search for Rinto Kambaru Windi (27) who was reported missing in the Ngaru Wai River," said I Putu Sudayana. He explained that during the SAR operation, a joint SAR team in East Sumba Regency managed to find the victim Rinto Kambaru Windi (27) on the Ngaru Wai River dead. "When found the victim was dead. The SAR team immediately evacuated the victim to the funeral home not far from the scene," said I Putu Sudayana. I Putu Sudayana hopes that community members will be more careful in carrying out activities around the river in unfriendly weather conditions to prevent unwanted things from happening.