Indonesia school collapse: one dead, 65 buried under rubble as rescuers race to find survivors

[malaise]

Alternative headline - how children pay for adult ignorance.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/sep/30/indonesia-school-collapse-one-dead-65-buried-under-rubble-as-rescuers-race-to-find-survivors

At least one student has been killed, dozens injured and 65 presumed buried under rubble after a school building collapsed in Indonesia on Monday, with rescuers running oxygen and water to those who remained trapped more than 12 hours later.

Rescue workers, police and soldiers digging through the night pulled out eight weak and injured survivors hours after the building at Al Khoziny Islamic boarding school in the East Java town of Sidoarjo collapsed while students were praying.

Rescuers saw additional bodies, indicating the death toll was likely to rise.
The students had been performing afternoon prayers in a building that was undergoing an unauthorised expansion when it suddenly collapsed on top of them, provincial police spokesperson Jules Abraham Abast said.