Saddan Mohamad Raisan yang berusia (17) tahun salah satu siswa di Pondok Pesantren Al Mukmin, Ngruki, Cemani, Solo, Jawa Tengah hanyut dibawa air, saat berenang di sungai, Selasa (11/3) kemarin sore. Meski sudah dilakukan pencarian, siswa yang juga tinggal di dalam ponpes tersebut hingga malam tadi belum ditemukan.

Humas tim Basarnas Surakarta Yohan Tri Anggoro juga mengatakan, sebelum hanyut Raisan bersama 2 orang temannya berenang dari bawah jembatan di dekat Ponpes Al Mukmin Ngruki.

"Sekitar jam 15.30 WIB, 3 siswa berenang dari jembatan dekat pondok Al Mukmin Ngruki. Dua siswa bisa berenang, tapi yang 1 ternyata belum bisa, akhirnya hanyut terbawa arus," ujar Yohan.

Menurut Yohan, arus sungai cukup dalam dan deras, setelah Selasa sore terjadi hujan lebat. Saat ini pihaknya bersama tim SAR sedang berupaya untuk dapat mencari keberadaan korban.

"Sementara malam ini kami melakukan penyanggongan di 3 titik. Tim pertama menunggu di Jembatan Dawung, kedua di daerah Plalan dan ketiga di Nusupan," pungkasnya.

BEIJING (AP) — The head of Taiwan's Nationalists reaffirmed the party's support for eventual unification with the mainland when he met Monday with Chinese President Xi Jinping as part of continuing rapprochement between the former bitter enemies.

Nationalist Party Chairman Eric Chu, a likely presidential candidate next year, also affirmed Taiwan's desire to join the proposed Chinese-led Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank during the meeting in Beijing. China claims Taiwan as its own territory and doesn't want the island to join using a name that might imply it is an independent country.

Chu's comments during his meeting with Xi were carried live on Hong Kong-based broadcaster Phoenix Television.

The Nationalists were driven to Taiwan by Mao Zedong's Communists during the Chinese civil war in 1949, leading to decades of hostility between the sides. Chu, who took over as party leader in January, is the third Nationalist chairman to visit the mainland and the first since 2009.

Relations between the communist-ruled mainland and the self-governing democratic island of Taiwan began to warm in the 1990s, partly out of their common opposition to Taiwan's formal independence from China, a position advocated by the island's Democratic Progressive Party.

Despite increasingly close economic ties, the prospect of political unification has grown increasingly unpopular on Taiwan, especially with younger voters. Opposition to the Nationalists' pro-China policies was seen as a driver behind heavy local electoral defeats for the party last year that led to Taiwanese President Ma Ying-jeou resigning as party chairman.