Building collapse at East Java boarding school kills at least 1 pupil

A building under construction at the Al Khoziny Islamic boarding school in Sidoarjo, East Java, collapsed on Monday afternoon during prayer, killing at least one pupil, burying dozens and injuring scores as rescuers worked through the night to free survivors, officials said. The collapse occurred while students were performing afternoon prayers in a structure that was undergoing an unauthorized expansion, provincial police and disaster officials said.

Police, soldiers and search teams continued digging into unstable concrete rubble into Tuesday morning, running oxygen and water to those they believe remain trapped. Officials and rescue coordinators reported sighting multiple bodies under the debris and warned the death toll could rise. A command post at the school listed 65 students as missing as of Tuesday morning, and officials said many of the presumed buried victims were male students in grades seven through 11, aged roughly 12 to 17.

Rescuers pulled several injured and weak survivors from the rubble more than eight hours after the collapse and transported dozens to nearby hospitals. Authorities provided differing counts of the injured, saying between roughly 80 and more...