Rescue personnel searching for missing students after the collapse of an Islamic Boarding School’s prayer room in Indonesia recovered the bodies of 12 more students on Monday, increasing the death toll in the incident to 61. The building collapsed on 29 September when the students were offering afternoon prayers. Most of them were boys. The building of the hundred -year -old ‘Al Khojini Islamic Boarding School’ located in Sido Arjo, Java Island, Indonesia, was being expanded unauthorized.
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Officials said that only one student was saved safely, while 99 students were discharged after treatment. Four seriously injured students were hospitalized till Monday. Three days after the building collapsed, the authorities resorted to heavy excavation machines to complete the work of faster the debris removal last week when the students found no indications of survival.
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The National Disaster Management Agency reported that rescuers on Monday took out 12 bodies from the rubble. Rescuers are still continuing the search for two students who are allegedly missing. No one is expected to survive. Officials said that most of the bodies were in such a condition that it was difficult to identify them. Relatives provided DNA samples to help identify in the Bhagakara police hospital of the neighboring city of East Java province.