Two Indonesian schoolchildren drown, five missing in Indian Ocean

Jakarta - Indonesian rescue teams recovered the bodies of two junior high school pupils Monday morning on a Java beach, as the search continued for five others swept out to sea, an official said. Huge waves carried the pupils out into the Indian Ocean when they were swimming off a beach near the central Javan city of Yogyakarta on Sunday, media reports said. The bodies were found around 500 meters from the spot where the swimmers disappeared.

The search and rescue operation was combing nearby coastal areas, said Taufik, a member of the team who like many Indonesians uses only one name.

The state-run Antara news agency reported that 20 pupils were swimming off Parangtritis beach when the waves struck. Thirteen managed to swim ashore, two of them slightly injured.

They were part of a group of 120 pupils from a junior high school in Kuningan, West Java, visiting Parangtritis beach as part of a school trip to Yogyakarta.

Source: Earth Times.
Link: http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/309257,two-indonesian-schoolchildren-drown-five-missing-in-indian-ocean.html.