"Holy Abdullah Arif, 49, wept as he held up a picture on his mobile phone of his nephew Rosi, still listed among the missing. He described his frantic search for the boy in the ruins. I ran around screaming, Rosi! Rosi! If you can hear me and can move, get out! And then a child was screaming back from the rubble, he was stuck. I thought that was Rosi, so I asked, Are you Rosi? and the child said, God, no, help me!"
"Relatives of the students at Al Khoziny boarding school came to search for the names of the children on a list of survivors as the rescue operation continued. An excavator and a crane had been deployed to help rescuers shift the rubble, but Nanang Sigit, a local search and rescue official, said authorities would not use heavy equipment for fear of causing the remaining structure to collapse. Those feared buried under the rubble are mostly between the ages of 12 and 17."
A building at an Islamic boarding school in Sidoarjo, East Java, collapsed while pupils held late-afternoon prayers in a mosque on a lower floor, and upper floors were under construction. Authorities listed 91 people missing after the collapse, with the presumed victims mostly aged 12 to 17. Rescuers recovered three bodies by late evening and reported 99 children and workers survived. Families gathered at the site, searching a whiteboard listing known survivors and calling for missing relatives. An excavator and crane were used to shift rubble, but officials avoided heavy equipment for fear of further collapse. Rescue operations continued amid frantic searches and cries from the ruins.
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