INDONESIA (The Jakarta Post) : Austrian freelance journalist Franz Resch has been missing since Thursday on Mount Sibayak in North Sumatra, police said Saturday.
A joint police and military team has been unable to find the 47-year-old man, who works for the London-based International Press Association.
Karo Police chief Adj. Sr. Comr. Ricky F. Wakanno said the search would continue until his whereabouts are known.
"We're still looking for the man and we'll continue until he is found, dead or alive. We're doing this to fulfill a request from the man's family through the Austrian embassy in Jakarta," he told The Jakarta Post on Saturday.
Resch left Tuesday morning to climb the peak in Simpang Empat district, Karo regency. He was not accompanied by a guide. Several witnesses, including two German tourists, saw him on the mountain that day.
He could not be contacted as of Thursday, and the police declared him missing.
Ricky said Resch is the most recent in a long list of people who have gone missing on the mountain.
According to police data, at least seven foreigners have been lost on Sibayak, and three have been found dead.
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