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More bodies pulled from collapsed Indonesian school
Los Angeles Times
|October 04, 2025
With over 50 students still missing, death toll from building cave-in expected to increase.
RESCUERS carry a victim's body out of a collapsed building at a boarding school in Sidoarjo, East Java, Indonesia, on Friday. The death toll is expected to rise.
(BASARNAS Associated Press)
Recovery crews on Friday pulled multiple bodies from beneath the rubble of a school that collapsed in Indonesia, with dozens of students still unaccounted for and the death toll expected torise.
Rescuers had been initially working by hand after the building being renovated caved in Monday as they searched for survivors. But with no more signs of life detected by Thursday they turned to heavy excavators equipped with jackhammers to help them progress more rapidly.
By evening on Friday they had found five bodies, bringing the confirmed death toll to 10, with more than 50 students still unaccounted for.
This story is from the October 04, 2025 edition of Los Angeles Times.
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