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Officers from the East Java Police Indonesia Automatic Fingerprint Identification System (Inafis) and Mobile Brigade conduct an investigation on Nov. 21 at Bukit Jaddih tourism site in Bangkalan, Madura Island, East Java. The investigation was launched after six students of an Islamic boarding school were drown in the water-filled quarry on Nov. 20.
Officers from the East Java Police Indonesia Automatic Fingerprint Identification System (Inafis) and Mobile Brigade conduct an investigation on Nov. 21 at Bukit Jaddih tourism site in Bangkalan, Madura Island, East Java. The investigation was launched after six students of an Islamic boarding school were drown in the water-filled quarry on Nov. 20.`
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