At least 91 students remain trapped in concrete rubble almost two days after an Islamic school building collapsed on them, authorities said after reviewing attendance records and reports from anxious families of those missing.
More than 300 rescue workers desperately worked to free survivors Wednesday morning, following the collapse of the structure that fell on top of hundreds of people—mostly teen boys—who had been performing afternoon prayers on Monday in a prayer hall at the century-old al Khoziny Islamic boarding school in East Java province. The building was undergoing an unauthorised expansion at the time of the collapse.
At least three students have been confirmed dead, and 100 others were injured. The National Disaster Management Agency revised the number of people presumed buried in the rubble to 91 late Tuesday, up from the previous count of 38.
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