"Rescue workers, police and soldiers digging through the night pulled out eight weak and injured survivors more than eight hours after the collapse at Al Khoziny Islamic Boarding School in the East Java town of Sidoarjo. Rescuers saw additional bodies, indicating the death toll was likely to rise. Families of the students gathered at hospitals or near the collapsed building, anxiously awaiting news of their children. Relatives wailed as they watched rescuers pull a dusty, injured student from the buried prayer hall."
"They are mostly boys in grades seven to 11, between the ages of 12 and 17. "Oh my God... my son is still buried, oh my God please help!" a mother cried hysterically upon seeing her child's name on the board, followed by the cries of other parents whose relatives had suffered a similar fate. "Please, sir, please find my child immediately," cried a father, holding the hand of one of the rescue team members."
An unauthorised expansion caused part of the Al Khoziny Islamic Boarding School in Sidoarjo, East Java, to collapse during afternoon prayers. Rescue workers, police and soldiers dug through the night and pulled out eight weak and injured survivors more than eight hours after the collapse. Rescuers saw additional bodies, and a notice board listed 65 students as missing. Most missing students were boys in grades seven to eleven, aged 12 to 17. Heavy slabs, rubble and unstable structure hampered search efforts; heavy equipment was withheld to avoid further collapse. Rescuers supplied oxygen and water and several hundred personnel conducted evacuation and medical support.
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