Google – AFP, 15 February 2014
Jakarta — Seven Japanese tourists were missing after leaving for a scuba diving trip in waters off the Indonesian island of Bali, police said Saturday.
A rescue
team search for seven Japanese tourists who went missing after
leaving for a
scuba diving trip in waters off Bali on February 15, 2014 (AFP,
Sonny
Tumbelaka)
|
Jakarta — Seven Japanese tourists were missing after leaving for a scuba diving trip in waters off the Indonesian island of Bali, police said Saturday.
The group
disappeared after heading out on a speedboat to Nusa Lembongan, a small island
off the southeast coast of the popular resort isle, Bali police spokesman
Hariadi told AFP.
"Seven
Japanese tourists went missing after a diving activity in the area on
Friday," he said.
A rescue
team search for seven Japanese
tourists who went missing after leaving for
a scuba
diving trip in waters off Bali on
February 15, 2014 (AFP, Sonny Tumbelaka)
|
It is not
yet clear if the group got into trouble once they entered the water, or if they
were on the boat.
"Our
priority is to find them first. We don't know if they had experienced engine
trouble, strong currents or bad weather conditions," Hariadi said.
Yasue
Katsunobu, the deputy consul general of Japan in Denpasar, confirmed that the
missing were Japanese and he was "awaiting results of the search".
Nusa
Lembongan is a popular scuba diving spot is part of Coral Triangle, widely
considered the world's richest underwater wilderness.
It across
six nations between the Indian and Pacific oceans -- Indonesia, Malaysia, the
Philippines, East Timor, Papua New Guinea and the Solomon Islands.
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