ITB student missing during rafting in Garut
Yuli Tri Suwarni, The Jakarta Post, Bandung, West Java | Mon, 02/06/2012 5:29 PM
The Search and Rescue team, along with dozens of college students, searched for a student at the Bandung Institute of Technology (ITB). Angelina Yofanka has been missing since Sunday afternoon while rafting with dozens of other students in the Cikandang River, Pakenjeng, Garut regency, West Java.
ITB student affairs body chairman Brian Yuliarto said that Angelina was declared missing at 1:30 p.m. on Sunday.
Angelina disappeared after she and three friends jumped into the water to keep their inflatable raft in balance when it was about to flip while passing Tanjungjaya village in Pakenjeng. Her three friends came back to the surface a few seconds later while Angelina apparently disappeared.
“We’ve gone down the river four times but we could not find her. We suspect that she was trapped behind the big rock at the boat’s last point. There was a 9-meter deep hole behind the rock,” Brian told The Jakarta Post on Monday.
Angelina was one of 30 members of the KMPA Ganesha ITB wildlife adventure club who went rafting with 26 other members of wildlife adventure clubs in Bandung, West Java, on Sunday. (swd)
