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View all search resultsBoarding school collapse death toll rises to 37, dozens still missing
Efforts continued for a seventh day to search for the bodies of 26 students still declared missing, mostly teenage boys from the ages of 13 to 19, trapped under the rubble.
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The remains of a student killed in a building collapse at the Al Khoziny Islamic boarding school is brought in a body bag to the Bhayangkara hospital in Surabaya, East Java on Oct. 4, 2025. The death toll in a school collapse rose to 17 on Oct. 4, officials said, as rescuers deployed heavy machinery to recover dozens more victims believed still buried under the rubble. (AFP/Juni Kriswanto )
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he number of students confirmed dead after the collapse of an Islamic boarding school building in Sidoarjo, East Java, rose to 37, the National Disaster Mitigation Agency (BNPB) said on Sunday.
Efforts continued for a seventh day to search for the bodies of 26 students still declared missing, mostly teenage boys from the ages of 13 to 19, trapped under the rubble.
Cranes were deployed to excavate debris and search and evacuation efforts were 60 percent complete, according to the agency, which said it expected to clear all debris and finish the search on Monday.
The Al Khoziny Islamic boarding school, known locally as pesantren, caved in last Monday, collapsing on top of hundreds of teenage students during afternoon prayers. Its foundations could no longer support the ongoing construction work on the upper floors.
Indonesia, the world's largest Muslim-majority nation, has about 42,000 pesantren serving seven million students, according to religious affairs ministry data.
The school collapse was so violent that it sent tremors across the neighborhood, according to residents.
Investigators have been looking into the cause of the collapse, but initial signs pointed to substandard construction, experts have said.
