According to CCTV News, on April 21, local time, the Indonesian police released a message saying that on April 20, a Chinese tourist fell to his death at Yizhen Volcano in Indonesia.
Junaedi, an Indonesian police official, briefed the media about the situation of Chinese tourists falling off a cliff at Mount Izhen. Police said the 31-year-old Chinese tourist died after falling into a canyon tens of meters deep while taking pictures on the edge of the Izhen crater.
Dwi Sugiharto, an official with Indonesia's East Java Natural Resources Defense Agency (BKSDA), said the tourist had fallen into a canyon about 75 meters deep and it took rescuers two hours to remove the body. In addition, Sugiharto said that the incident was purely accidental, and reminded all tourists to pay attention to safety when climbing Mount Ijin.
The police also said that the hospital and police had difficulty communicating with the families of the tourists killed due to language problems, and tentatively planned to transport the remains to Bali and then return to China by air.
Izhen Volcano (data map)
According to the Metropolis Express, citing the Indonesian news website "Liputan6", the 31-year-old female tourist named "HL" came to Indonesia with her husband. At 2:10 a.m. that day, they were guided to the Ijin Crater to watch the sunrise and watch the famous "Blue Flame".
According to the report, the female tourist wanted to take a photo near an internet celebrity tree, and during the photo session, she tripped over the long skirt she was wearing as she stepped back and fell from a 75-meter-high canyon. It is reported that the tour guide once reminded this Internet celebrity check-in point that it is very dangerous.
When rescuers found the female tourist, they found her dead.
It was around 6 a.m. and in the middle of nowhere, it took rescuers two hours to find the tourist, who was dead when he was found. Her body was brought down the mountain at 11 a.m. that day.
Local police said the incident was an accident. The tourist had multiple injuries and a fractured left leg.
There have been tourists who almost fell off while checking in at a similar place.
According to the report, there have been foreign tourists who tried to check in and take pictures in similar places before and almost fell from a height.
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Mount Ijin was once the largest source of sulphur in Indonesia
In 2023, with the release of the documentary "Volcano Love", the Izhen Volcanic Sulfuric Acid Lake in the film has become a check-in place for many travel enthusiasts.
It is understood that Ijin Volcano was once the largest sulfur producer in Indonesia, and in the past, a large number of miners gathered near the Ijin crater, used hoes to collect sulfur rocks, and then carried the baskets full of sulfur down the mountain by hand.
Mount Ijin has been selling itself as "the only place in the world where you can see blue flames" and attracts tourists from all over the world. Visitors to the volcano need to wear a protective mask to filter out ash and sulfur vapors, and wear a headlamp to illuminate the path below.
Kawai Zhen Volcano in Indonesia (Photo source: CCTV Station in Jakarta)
And a nearby tree has also become an Internet celebrity check-in point for Yizhen Volcano. The reporter noticed that on social platforms, there are many people who will take pictures with their backs to the tree.
However, on social platforms, the attractions here have also been "dissuaded" by many netizens-
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Source: CCTV News Client, China News Network, Beijing Youth Daily, China Emergency Management
Editor: Zhang Fan
Editor-in-charge: Zhu Meirong