JAKARTA: Eleven sink students and 10 others were saved during school sightseeing for river cleaning in West Java Province Indonesia, official officials said Saturday.
Local officials said 150 students from Islamic junior high school participated in cleaning Friday along the banks of the Cileuur River Bank when 21 of them slipped into the water.
“The weather is good and there is no flash flood,” said Deden Ridwansyah, Chair of the Bandung Search and Rescue Office.
“Children who are sinking hold hands with each other.
One of them slips and others follow,” said another person, “said another person,” said Ridwansyah).
The closest population and rescue team managed to save 10 students, sent to the nearest hospital.
Tattooers use large orange inflatable rafts to look for victims and all students are taken into account when the search ended Friday night.
Students don’t seem to wear a floating device.
Some reports say they are trying to cross the river, which is popular for white water rafting and tubing, when they fall.
Rain often causes landslides and flash floods in Indonesia, where millions of people live in mountainous areas or near the floodland.
In February 2020, Flash floods killed at least six students who sank in the river in the Sleman district in Yogyakarta Province.