Kupastuntas.co, Central Lampung - Floods occurred in two areas, namely Terusan Nunyai District and the Gunung Madu Plantation (PT GMP) company area, to be precise, in Division 3 of Bandar Mataram District last Thursday (9/3/23), resulting in a delivery driver pick up employees carried away by the current with his car.

"In Division 3 of GMP, an employee shuttle vehicle was carried away by the river current on Jalan Sungai Batako, Kampung Terbanggi Ilir, Bandar Mataram District. The name of the victim is Edi Susilo (30)," said the Head of the Central Lampung Regional Disaster Management Agency (BPBD), Makmuri.

"As for the post, we have established it, focusing on Kampung Gunung Batin Baru, because there are refugees, but the number is not much," he concluded.

The chronology of events is when the victim Edi was driving a silver Mitsubishi Strada car, from Division 3 PT. GMP headed for Division 4 and Division 6 to pick up employees, when the victim was crossing the Batako River in Division 3 which was flooding, suddenly the car the victim was driving was swept away by the current and drowned.

The process of searching for victims was temporarily stopped considering it was already night, and will continue the next day.

Friday (10/3/2023), the Search And Rescue (SAR) team continued the search for Edi Susilo's car who was swept away in the flood. The team deployed three boats from Basarnas Lampung.

The commander of the Lampung SAR team, Roby Heru, said that his party was conducting a search around the incident location with a radius of 1.5 KM on the GMP 3rd Division Batako River.

"We dispatched 3 rescue rubber boats and a wooden boat to investigate the incident. We also used mines attached to large magnets," said Roby, when questioned.

Kupastuntas.co monitoring at the location, a number of SAR team personnel together with Central Lampung Police personnel and GMP are currently searching for victims.

Fortunately, in the afternoon at 17.25 PM about 500 meters from the location point, Edi Susilo was found by the SAR Team.

Head of Basarnas for Lampung Province, Deden Ridwansyah explained, the team conducted a search from Thursday (9/3) to Friday (10/3). And finally the body of Edi Susilo (30) was found.

"Our team did dives at several points, and also used manual tools using ropes and anchors, to look for the whereabouts of the drifting vehicles. Thank God, just before maghrib, the body was found," said Deden.

One of the female SAR teams named Putri explained that the victim was found not far from the diving officer's point, about 20 meters. Putri said local residents were the first to see the floating victim.

"We immediately approached, and put on the boat, if you see the position of the victim's head full of mud. In fact, usually within 24 hours, a person who is submerged in the water will float because the gas in their body comes out," said Putri.

"The depth of the river is 5 to 7 meters and is full of mud under it. As for the vehicle, that is the company's business, we only focus on the victims," Putri concluded. (*)