Relatives weep for scores of missing children after deadly Indonesia school collapse


Rescuers search for victims at the site where a building under construction collapsed at an Islamic boarding school in Sidoarjo, East Java, Indonesia, Tuesday, Sept. 30, 2025. - Photo: AP

SIDOARJO, (Indonesia): Parents were desperately searching for scores of missing teenage boys feared trapped under huge piles of concrete on Tuesday (Sept 30), after an Islamic boarding school collapsed in Indonesia as pupils were praying inside.

Authorities said 91 people were listed as missing, after the Al Khoziny school building collapsed while pupils held late afternoon prayers in a mosque housed on a lower floor of a building whose upper floors were under construction.

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