The teenager and his 16-year-old brother fell into a ravine. The older brother managed to free himself, but the younger brother remained stuck. The search has so far been unsuccessful.
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, Agence France-Presse learned on Sunday, September 1, from the French consular services in Jakarta.
“We have asked the Indonesian authorities to continue the search beyond the statutory seven-day deadline and the search is continuing,” Elsa Rochier, the French consul in Jakarta, told AFP. “Significant resources are being mobilised,” she added.
Fell into a ravine
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 that same day in the late afternoon, the boy and his older brother aged 16, “both slipped and fell into a ravine”, a family member contacted in France by AFP explained to AFP.
The eldest, who did not fall in exactly the same place, was able to go and call for help the next morning, telling his brother, who was stuck on a ledge, not to move while he waited. Not seeing her two children arrive, the mother raised the alarm that same evening.
Unsuccessful searches
After a day of walking, the older brother was finally 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 is continuing,” Kadek Donny Indrawan, who is coordinating the Indonesian search team in Buleleng, in the north of the island of Bali, told AFP.
“Around 30 people are mobilized,” he added, specifying that “for the moment the searches have not yielded any results.”
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