A search has been underway for a week on the Indonesian island of Bali to try to find a 14-year-old French teenager who disappeared during a trek on Mount Batukaru, officials said on Sunday.is September with the French consular services in Jakarta.
“We have asked the Indonesian authorities to continue the search beyond the statutory seven-day period, and the search is continuing.”said Elsa Rochier, French consul in Jakarta. “Significant resources are being mobilized”she added.
The teenager, named Thibault, on holiday in Bali with his mother and two brothers, who live in the Paris region, had climbed Mount Batukaru, one of the two highest peaks on the island, during the day.
During the descent the same day in the late afternoon, the boy and his 16-year-old older brother “both slipped and fell into a ravine”explained a family member contacted in France by Agence France-Presse (AFP).
The eldest, who did not fall in exactly the same place, was able to go and call for help the next morning, after asking his brother, who was stuck on a ledge, not to move while waiting. Not seeing her two children arrive, the mother raised the alarm that same evening.
After a day of walking, the older brother was able to alert the emergency services who, upon arriving at the scene, did not find the teenager, said this family member, adding that the missing young man did not appear to have been injured in the fall and had communicated verbally with his brother during the night.
“The rescue operation continues”Kadek Donny Indrawan, who coordinates the Indonesian search team in Buleleng, in the north of the island of Bali, told AFP. “Around thirty people are mobilized”he added, specifying that, “For the moment, research is not[avaient] gave no results ».
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