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Asia Pacific|No More Signs of Life From Rubble of Collapsed School in Indonesia
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/world/asia/indonesia-school-collapse.html
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Rescuers saved five more students from under the building on Thursday but said they would end the search three days after the deadly accident.
By Hasya Nindita
Reporting from Sidoarjo, Indonesia
Oct. 2, 2025, 4:34 a.m. ET
Rescuers in Indonesia, who had spent days frantically trying to save students trapped under a collapsed school, said Thursday morning that they detected no more signs of life from under the rubble and would now focus on recovering bodies.
Five more students were pulled out alive from the Al Khoziny school in Sidoarjo, East Java Province, on Thursday morning, bringing the number of rescued people to 14. Two others were found dead, bringing the total death toll to five.
The National Disaster Management Agency estimated that 59 students were still trapped and presumed dead under the Islamic boarding school, which collapsed during a prayer service on Monday afternoon. It was unclear how many students were in the building when it fell.
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Indonesia has more than 30,000 Islamic boarding schools, or pesantren, which often draw children from rural areas, according to the Ministry of Religious Affairs. Al Khoziny, a secondary school built in 1964, has about 1,300 students from across the country.
