Jakarta –
Light rail transit project water reservoir (LRT) at Rasuna Said, Kuningan, South Jakarta, broke down. Runoff water swept the riders like a flood.
Setiabudi Sub-district Head Iswahyudin explained that the incident occurred on Tuesday (28/6) at around 16.20 WIB. A witness named Soleh, a security guard in the JPO 2 area of the Setiabudi LRT project station suddenly heard a loud sound.
“The witness went directly to the location and saw a woman using a motorcycle carried away by the current of the flood that came from the water reservoir (GWT) of the Setiabudi LRT station project which collapsed,” said Iswahyudin in his statement to reporters, Tuesday (28/6/2022).
A security guard at the Lina Building, Suralim, also heard a cracking sound accompanied by water leaking out of the water reservoir for the Setiabudi LRT station project. The witness saw several motorbikes ‘swept away’ runoff.
“The motorcycle rider who was passing in front was swept away by the flowing flood and hit the LRT project workers who were making the JPO for the LRT station,” he said.
Suralim then helped the victim to evacuate and report to the Setiabudi Police. Another witness, Saka, who was an expedition courier, was almost swept away by runoff from a water reservoir that burst.
“The expedition courier immediately left his motorbike to save himself,” he added.
Read on next page: five victims were injured.
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