Chief of Operations for the INASAR Team, Asnawi Suroso, noted in a statement on Saturday that the search and rescue operation has entered its fifth day in the Thukka Theiddhi Ward area of Naypyidaw, focusing on collapsed buildings.
The INASAR team is collaborating with the Urban SAR teams from Singapore, Myanmar, Vietnam, and the Philippines. Each team is assigned a specific search zone, with the INASAR team responsible for the fourth search location point at the Jade Hotel.
According to Suroso, the INASAR team deployed the Alfa and Charlie teams, which include a professional medical team, and a K9 tracker dog team from the National Police, as one of the mainstays in this humanitarian mission.
He explained that the team works by creating inspection holes to assess victims' conditions using K9 dogs. This process is followed by a secondary assessment with high-resolution search cameras.
"The INASAR team created approximately 15 inspection holes, followed by an assessment using K9 and a search camera. However, the visual results from the search camera, K9 indications, and the pungent odor revealed no whereabouts of the victims," he stated.
On Friday, in collaboration with the Singapore USAR Team, the INASAR Team conducted a joint operation to recover a victim whose body was partially visible, he revealed.
However, the evaluation was delayed as the body was trapped under a building column within an unstable structure.
"Considering the safety of all USAR team members, all team leaders agreed to continue the evacuation process on Saturday," Suroso remarked.
For this humanitarian mission in Myanmar, the Indonesian government has deployed 157 personnel from various ministries and institutions, including the Coordinating Ministry for Human Development and Culture, the Ministry of Health, the National Disaster Mitigation Agency (BNPB), and the National Search and Rescue Agency (Basarnas).
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Translator: M. Riezko Bima, Resinta Sulistiyandari
Editor: Primayanti
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