Two students die on Mt. Cartenz

JAKARTA: Two students at Brawijaya University in Malang, East Java, were found dead on Mt. Cartenz in Irian Jaya yesterday, a press report said.

Antara said that the mountaineers, Herman CR and Bonavertura, may have died from cold rain storms in Timika, near the giant copper plant of PT Freeport Indonesia.

A Freeport official, Suryaatmaja, said a search and rescue team brought the students' bodies down to Tembagapura at 12 p.m. local time.

They were on a climbing mission with two other students of the same university who survived the Sunday storms and are now in Tembagapura.

Suryaatmaja said that a Freeport helicopter was only able to pick up the bodies yesterday due to bad weather on the mountain until Sunday. (pan)