Jakarta, hitclubapk3 Indonesia
—
Joint SAR team
returned to find the dead victims of the disaster
landslide
in Cibeunying Village,
Cilacap Regency
, Central Java, on the fifth day.
“Hopefully the clear weather today can maximize the search so that all the victims can be found quickly,” said Cilacap SAR Head Muhammad Abdullah in Cibeunying Village, Majenang District, Cilacap, Monday (17/11), quoted from
Between
.
The SAR team found two victims dead at Worksite A-2, namely Nilna Nur Fauziah (9) who was found at 08.57 WIB and Wafik Nur Aini Zahra (15) at 09.37 WIB.
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Apart from that, the SAR team also evacuated two motorbikes found at Worksite B-2 at 09.11 WIB.
Based on temporary data as of 10.00 WIB, the total number of victims affected by the landslide was 46 people, consisting of 23 people who survived, 15 people who died, and eight other people are still being searched for.
Abdullah said that on the fifth day of operations the joint SAR team applied three search methods, namely area monitoring using thermal drones to detect hot spots suspected of being the victim’s whereabouts.
Furthermore, the deployment of sniffer dogs to comb buried residential areas and the operation of heavy equipment to speed up the process of excavating landslide material.
According to him, the three methods were carried out in parallel to expand the scope of the search while increasing the chances of finding victims.
“The division of the search area is still the same as the previous day, namely four work sites including A1 and A2 in Cibuyut Hamlet and B1 and B2 in Tarukahan Hamlet,” he said.
Abdullah said that each work site was led by a field coordinator with the preparation of safer evacuation routes as the ground conditions began to stabilize.
Apart from that, said Abdullah, the National Disaster Management Agency (BNPB) has made weather modifications since Sunday (16/11) to reduce the potential for rain at the disaster location.
“This effort had a positive impact because the weather from Sunday (16/11) afternoon to Monday (17/11) morning was clear, making it easier for SAR personnel to carry out searches,” said Abdullah.
The landslide disaster occurred on Thursday (11/13), at around 19.00 WIB, and buried a number of residents’ houses in Tarukahan Hamlet and Cibuyut Hamlet, Cibeunying Village, Majenang District, Cilacap.
The landslide damaged 12 houses and threatened 16 other houses in an area of around 6.5 hectares.Landslide material buried settlements and caused land subsidence as deep as 2 meters and cracks as long as 25 meters.
(fra/between/fra)
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