{"id":50607,"date":"2025-10-05T15:48:56","date_gmt":"2025-10-05T15:48:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/?p=50607"},"modified":"2025-10-05T15:51:19","modified_gmt":"2025-10-05T15:51:19","slug":"indonesia-school-collapse-death-toll-rises-to-36-search-for-bodies-continues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/?p=50607","title":{"rendered":"Indonesia school collapse death toll rises to 36, search for bodies continues"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Reuters:   <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">JAKARTA, Oct 5  &#8211; The number of students confirmed dead after the collapse of an Islamic boarding school building in Indonesia rose to 36, from 16 a day earlier, the country&#8217;s disaster mitigation agency said on Sunday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Efforts continued for a seventh day to search for the bodies of 27 students still declared missing &#8211; mostly teenage boys from the ages of 13 to 19 &#8211; trapped under the rubble, the agency said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Cranes were deployed to excavate debris and search and evacuation efforts were 60% complete, according to the agency, which said it expected to clear all debris and finish the search on Monday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Al Khoziny school in the town of Sidoarjo in East Java province caved in last Monday,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/asia-pacific\/indonesian-rescuers-hunt-38-missing-after-islamic-school-collapse-2025-09-30\/\">collapsing<\/a>&nbsp;on top of hundreds of teenage students during afternoon prayers, its foundations unable to support ongoing construction work on its upper floors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On Friday, rescuers received the parents&#8217; permission to make use of heavy equipment after failing to find signs of life during previous efforts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Rescuers dug through tunnels in the remains of the building, calling out the boys&#8217; names and using sensors to detect any movement, but found no signs of life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Al Khoziny is an Islamic boarding school known locally as a pesantren.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reuters: JAKARTA, Oct 5 &#8211; The number of students confirmed dead after the collapse of an Islamic boarding school building in Indonesia rose to 36, from 16 a day earlier, the country&#8217;s disaster mitigation agency said on Sunday. Efforts continued for a seventh day to search for the bodies of 27 students still declared missing &#8211; mostly teenage boys from the ages of 13 to 19 &#8211; trapped under the rubble, the agency said. Cranes were deployed to excavate debris and search and evacuation efforts were 60% complete, according to the agency, which said it expected to clear all debris&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":50610,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50607","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-in-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50607","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=50607"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50607\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50609,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50607\/revisions\/50609"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/50610"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}