Indonesian school collapse: death toll rises to 14 as crews pull more bodies from rubble | Indonesia
After the healing teams pulled more than one bodies under the rubble, the transition of death caused by a school collapse in Indonesia on Friday rose to 14. Dozens of students are not taken into account and the death fee is expected to increase.
The savior initially searched for survivors after entering the building on Monday. However, they returned to heavy excavators equipped with Jackhammer to help them move faster without signs of life identified until Thursday.
The crew worked on Friday and worked in the hot sun and worked to remove large concrete plates, under the smell of decomposed objects, a terrible reminder of what they will find under.
In the evening, they found nine bodies, brought the approved death fee to 14, and about 50 students were still not calculated.
On Monday, hundreds of people fell in a prayer hall in Sidoarjo in East Java, about 780km (480 miles) of Jakarta, in a prayer hall at a century -old Al Khoziny Islamic Boarding School.
Indonesia’s National Disaster Reduction Agency President Suharyanto told reporters at the scene on Friday, said that rescue efforts are expected to be completed by the end of Saturday.
Students were mostly men in seven to 12 classes between the ages of 12-19. The female students prayed in another part of the building and managed to escape.
Thirteen -year -old Rizalul Qoib, one of the 104 victims, returned to the scene on Friday to look at the rest of his school and said he was lucky to go out with a small wound on his head.
Like the others, he said he prayed when he heard something like the sound of the rocks falling loudly and loudly.
Im I stopped praying and ran away when I felt the floor trembling, ”he remembered. “Suddenly the building collapsed, the remains of the roof fell into my head, my face.”
Then the room darkened, but he heard that someone shouted, “That’s how,” and finally followed the sound until he found a narrow gap in the rubble.
“I just followed the light,” Qoib said.
Most of the injured but escaped or rescued others have been exposed to serious head trauma and broken bones and are still treated in the hospital.
Authorities said the building was two floors, but two levels without permission were added. Police said the foundation of the old building could not support extra floors and collapsed during the casting process.
School officials have not yet commented.
