Swedish Tourist Falls Into Bali's Mount Batur Crater
Jakarta Globe, Made Arya Kencana, March 31, 2010
Rescue teams on Wednesday were racing to the scene of an accident after a Swedish tourist reportedly fell into the active crater of Mount Batur in Bangli district.
Daniel Petersen, 25, remains missing after he climbed the 1717-meter-high Mount Batur with two friends at 4 a.m. on Wednesday.
Bali's National Search and Rescue Agency (Basarnas) said they received report at 7:25 a.m from a guide identified as Komang that Petersen had fallen into the mountain's crater.
“We are still climbing to the crater,” Basarnas official Ketut Parwa said.
Basarnas was being assisted by police, paramedics and local volunteers.
Parwa said Petersen's friends survived and were waiting for the rescue team though evacuation efforts were being hampered by bad weather.
Mount Batur is about 90 minutes drive from the provincial capital, Denpasar. According to the Meteorology, Climatology and Geophysics Agency, it has erupted 26 times since 1840
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