As dozens of people were at afternoon prayer on Tuesday, an Islamic boarding school collapsed in the province of East Java, leaving 38 people believed to be trapped under rubble, and Indonesian rescuers were rushing to find them, according to disaster mitigation authorities.
The disaster mitigation service stated in a statement that Monday’s tragedy at the Al Khoziny school in the town of Sidoarjo resulted in the collapse of the unstable building during construction, killing one person and evacuating 102 others.
Building materials fell on scores of students and employees as a result of this unexpected incident,” agency spokesperson Abdul Muhari stated. He claimed that searchers were moving the debris with the help of a bulldozer and that about 80 injured people were being transported to hospitals.
The debris of a structure that collapsed at the compound of an Islamic boarding school in Sidoarjo, East Java, Indonesia, on Tuesday is visible in this drone-captured aerial photograph. AP Families of students were gathered around a whiteboard, examining a list of survivors, according to video footage from the news channel KompasTV. The agency claimed that the weight of the fourth-floor development was too much for the building’s foundations to bear.
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