Race against time: Search and rescue officers looking for victims amidst the rubble of the building that collapsed while students were praying at the Al Khoziny boarding school in Sidoarjo, East Java. — Reuters
THE nation’s rescuers were racing yesterday to find 38 people feared trapped beneath the rubble of an Islamic boarding school that collapsed in East Java during afternoon prayers, killing at least three, said disaster officials.
Three people were confirmed dead and 99 others survived the collapse at the Al Khoziny boarding school in Sidoarjo, a town about 780km east of Jakarta, according to Mohammad Syafii, head of Indonesia’s search and rescue agency.
