Death toll rises in Indonesia school tragedy

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 to rise.

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Rescuers had been initially working by hand after the building being renovated caved in on 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 13, with more than 50 students still unaccounted for.

The structure fell on top of hundreds of people in a prayer hall at the century-old Al Khoziny Islamic boarding school in Sidoarjo on the eastern side of Indonesia's Java island.