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(123,288 posts) Mon Sep 29, 2025, 03:00 PM Monday

Breaking: Indonesian school building collapses, dozens feared trapped - DW News

Dozens of students at a boarding school in Indonesia are feared trapped after a prayer hall collapsed -- that's according to local media reports. The incident happened in the town of Sidoarjo in East Java province. More than 100 students were performing prayers when the building caved in. Emergency teams are at the scene searching for survivors in the rubble. Witnesses have described chaotic scenes as students escaped the building.

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Mon Sep 29, 2025, 03:27 PM

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https://apnews.com/article/indonesia-islamic-boarding-school-collapse-7c78f4a02821e3331102205f2458f593

SIDOARJO, Indonesia (AP) — A building under construction at an Islamic boarding school in Indonesia collapsed on dozens of praying students Monday, killing at least one student, injuring dozens and burying others in the rubble, officials said.

Police, soldiers and rescue workers dug into the debris through the night in attempts to locate at least three additional students believed trapped alive at Al Khoziny Islamic Boarding School in the East Java town of Sidoarjo. Rescuers also said they saw additional bodies, indicating the death toll was likely to rise.
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One male student was killed and 83 other students were injured and taken to two nearby hospitals, some of them in critical condition, officials said.

Most of the victims were male, because female students were praying separately in another part of the building and managed to escape, survivors said.
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