Death toll hits 13 after Indonesian school collapse

The country’s disaster reduction agency confirmed that as the search for survivors continued, the collapse of an Islamic school building in Indonesia confirmed that it died after rising to 13.

On Monday, the Al Khoziny school in the town of Sidoarjo in East Java entered hundreds of young students during the afternoon, and could not support the ongoing construction works on their upper floors.

Disaster Reduction Agency, savior 50 students continued to look for while preparing, he said.

In the early hours of Friday, the agency reported that nine died and added that the savior was permission to benefit from heavy equipment after the savior could not find symptoms of life during previous efforts.

“Every family of the victims enters there and disturbs the bodies under the rubble,” he gave their blessings. ” He said.

In addition to ambulances, cranes were placed to dig some of the debris.

The savior dug through the tunnels in the ruins of the building, called the names of men and used sensors to detect any movement, but could not find signs of life, showing photos shared by the search and rescue agency.

Disaster agency, fourteen rescued victims were received medical treatment, he said.

Al Khoziny is an Islamic boarding school known as Pesantren locally.

According to the Ministry of Religious Affairs, Indonesia, the world’s largest Muslim majority country, has a total of 42,000 pesantrens serving seven million students.