11 kids drowned, 10 rescued in Indonesian river cleanup

JAKARTA – Eleven students drowned and 10 others were rescued during a schoolhouse outing for a stream cleanup successful Indonesia’s West Java Province, officials said Saturday.

Local officials said 150 students from an Islamic inferior precocious schoolhouse were participating successful the cleanup Friday on the banks of the Cileueur stream slope erstwhile 21 of them slipped into the water.

“The upwind was bully and determination was nary flash flood," said Deden Ridwansyah, main of the Bandung Search and Rescue Office. “Those children who drowned were holding each others’ hands. One of them slipped and the others followed,” Ridwansyah said.

Nearby residents and a rescue squad managed to prevention 10 of the students, who were sent to a adjacent hospital.

Rescuers utilized large orangish inflatable rafts to hunt for victims and each students were accounted for erstwhile the hunt ended Friday night.

The students seemingly were not wearing flotation devices. Some reports said they were trying to transverse the river, which is fashionable for rafting and interior tubing, erstwhile they fell in.

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