The day after the collapse of an Islamic boarding school in Indonesia, where three people have died, parents and rescue teams are eagerly searching for dozens of teenage boys who are feared trapped. Officials said that after the collapse of Al Khojini School, 91 people are said to be missing. At that time, the students were reciting late afternoon prayers at a mosque on the lower floor of the under construction building.The boarding school is located in the city of Sidoarjo of Eastern Java, which is about 780 km (480 mi) east of Jakarta.
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By late Tuesday evening, three bodies were recovered, while the missing children were still stranded under the huge concrete slab of the concrete. 99 children and employees have been detected in the school.Nanang Sigit, head of the local rescue agency, told reporters that the rescue team had found signs of life under the debris.
Officials said more than 300 rescuers were busy in evacuating people buried in the debris on Wednesday morning. Officials said that the rescuers, police and military personnel have been busy for the last two days after receiving information about the collapse of the building of the Islamic School ‘Al Khojini Islamic Boarding School’ in the East Java town of Sidoarjo.
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The school building was about 100 years old and unauthorized construction work was being done in it. The building collapsed when students were offering afternoon prayers in a boarding school room. Most of the people who were victims of the accident were students. The death of at least three students has been confirmed and 100 others have been injured. The National Disaster Management Agency revised the number of people buried in the debris 38 late on Tuesday night to 91.According to BNBP spokesperson Abdul Mohuri, the building collapsed due to not being able to bear the burden of new construction work on the fourth floor of the school by its foundation pillars.
He demanded strict security standards and urged the public and building managers to more carefully monitor the construction processes to prevent such incidents.Local media reports quoted a school officer as saying that the construction work was going on for the last nine months.
Loose construction standards have created widespread concerns about building safety in Indonesia, where it is common to leave structures – especially houses incomplete, which allows owners to create additional floors when they get their budget permission later.Earlier this month, at least three people died and dozens were injured when the building organized in West Java collapsed.
In 2018, seven teenagers, who were rehearsing a concert in Serbone east of Jakarta, died after the collapse of the building in which he was.The same year, at least 75 people were injured when the Mejenine floor of the Stock Exchange building in Jakarta fell at least 75 people.