Sidorjo: At least 65 students are feared trapped under rubble after a school building collapsed in Indonesia. Rescue workers are working tirelessly to free survivors more than 12 hours after the building collapsed. Students trapped in the concrete rubble of the collapsed building are being supplied with oxygen and water.
Rescue workers, police and soldiers are working tirelessly to free survivors who have been trapped for more than eight hours after the Al Khojini Islamic boarding school building collapsed in the town of Sidorjo, East Java. Rescue workers say the death toll is likely to rise.
Families of students gathered in hospitals or near the collapsed building waited for their children to emerge alive. They watched as rescue workers pulled out injured students from the dust-filled prayer room.
A signboard at the command post at the boarding school complex said 65 students were missing. Most of them were in grades seven to eleven, aged between 12 and 17.
A 13-year-old boy died and 99 students were injured and hospitalized, some of them seriously, officials said.
Authorities are investigating the cause of the building collapse. The old chapel was two-story but two other buildings were built on top without permission.