Floating Corpse Found in Seruyan, Suspected KM Virgo Victim; Five Liferafts Also Found Adrift

Basarnas coordinated with the Head of Basarnas Central Kalimantan and deployed a team to the location.

"I coordinated and the team has been dispatched," said I Putu.

The team is estimated to arrive in Seruyan around 1:00 a.m. WIB, followed by a roughly five-hour journey to the precise location where the body was found.

The corpse will then be transported to Banjarmasin for identification.

"Next, the body will be taken to Banjarmasin, where the DVI team will identify whether it matches the manifest or not," I Putu explained.

He added that determining whether the body is a KM Virgo Transport 8 victim will be done through identification by the Disaster Victim Identification (DVI) team of the Indonesian National Police.

So far, no official statement has confirmed that the body found in Seruyan belongs to a passenger of KM Virgo Transport 8.

The victim's identity and the connection to the ship accident await the results of official examination and identification.

This discovery marks the latest development in the KM Virgo Transport 8 search and rescue operation, now in its eighth day.

Parts of this article were originally published on BanjarmasinPost.co.id under the titles Floating Corpse Found on Sungai Perlu Beach Seruyan Central Kalimantan, Suspected KM Virgo Transport 8 Victim and Floating Corpse Washed Ashore in Seruyan, 22 People Not Listed in KM Virgo Transport 8 Manifest.