- 11 Kids Drowned, 10 Rescued in Indonesian River Cleanup.
- Rescuers deployed large orange inflatable rafts to hunt for casualties.
Ekohotblog reports that officials stated on Saturday that eleven pupils perished and ten others were recovered during a school excursion for a river cleanup in Indonesia’s West Java Province.
Local officials claimed 150 pupils from an Islamic junior high school were helping to clean up the Cileueur river bank on Friday when 21 of them fell into the water.
“The weather was good and there was no flash flood,” said Deden Ridwansyah, chief of the Bandung Search and Rescue Office. “Those children who drowned were holding each others’ hands. One of them slipped and the others followed,” Ridwansyah said.
Residents in the area and a rescue squad were able to save ten of the pupils, who were taken to a local hospital.
Rescuers deployed large orange inflatable rafts to hunt for casualties, and by Friday night, all pupils had been found.
The students did not appear to be wearing flotation equipment. According to some stories, they were attempting to cross the river, which is popular for rafting and inner tubing, when they drowned.
In Indonesia, where millions of people live in hilly areas or in flood plains, rains generate regular landslides and flash floods.
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In February 2020, a flash flood killed at least six students who drowned in a river in Yogyakarta province’s Sleman district.
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