Jakarta:
Seven Indonesians drowned immediately after an overloaded boat capsized due to the fact of vacationers attempting a selfie in a reservoir on Java island, police stated Sunday.
The accident occurred when all 20 passengers all of a sudden moved to the one side of the vessel to take a group photo on Saturday in the Boyolali regency, stated Central Java police chief Ahmad Lutfi.
“The cause of the accident was overcapacity,” Mr. Lutfi told reporters. “The 20 people took a selfie on the right side then the boat lost balance and flipped.”
Police added that 11 men and women have been rescued but seven have been located dead. Rescuers have been looking for two men and women nonetheless missing.
Authorities stated they will look into regardless of whether there was negligence by these managing the boat rides at the reservoir.
Mr. Lutfi stated that the boat was helmed by a 13-year-old.
Boat accidents are popular in Indonesia, a Southeast Asian archipelago of about 17,000 islands, due to lax security requirements.
In April, rescuers have been rushed to come across 17 fishermen immediately after two boats collided in West Java. Three have been located dead and 13 have been nonetheless missing when the search ended.
And in January last year, 10 men and women went missing immediately after a boat carrying 20 migrant workers to neighbouring Malaysia capsized off the coast of Sumatra island.
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