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Team spends 5 hours recovering car after flood in Bandung
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Members of a team from the Bandung administration and the West Java Police lift a drowned black MPV out of the Citepus River on Oct. 25. The car was carried away by a flood on Monday. (JP/Arya Dipa)
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team consisting of officials from the Bandung administration and officers of the West Java Police took five and a half hours to pull a car out from under a bridge after it got carried away by floodwaters on Jl. Pagarsih the previous day.
The car, a black Nissan MPV, was lifted by two hydraulic machines after it was shifted out from under the bridge connecting Jl. Pasir Koja and Jl. Astana Anyar.
Comr. Nana Sumarna said Tuesday the task was rendered more difficult because the car was filled with rocks and garbage.
Hundreds of locals crowded the site to watch the work and when the car was lifted they cheered.
The car was parked and empty when it was carried away by water on Jl. Pagarsih during the flood on Monday. A local neighborhood unit head, Ceppy Setiawan, said the flood came from the Citepus River and inundated Jl. Pagarsih for an hour. “The local rain was not heavy but the flood was from rains in the northern part of Bandung,” he said. The northern part of Bandung is higher in altitude.
The black MPV was carried about 200 meters down the street before being diverted by the water flow and plunging into the Citepus River, which is about 6 meters wide and 6 meters deep.
Another parked car and a parked motorcycle that had been modified to carry garbage were also carried away by the flood, but they did not end up in the river. (evi)
