There is at least one dead

At least one person died and 101 were rescued after the collapse on Monday in an Islamic boarding school in the Indonesian island of Java While the students prayed on the ground floor of the buildingemergency teams report on Tuesday, which are still looking for 38 missing.

The rescuers managed to get eight students between Monday afternoon and early Tuesday, while another 91 students “came out independently,” said the statement of the Emergency Service of Surabaya (Java), north of beenarjo, where the incident took place.

The collapse occurred at 15:35 local time (8:35 GMT) on Monday, when the students were praying in the Islamic boarding school Al-Khoziny, in the regency of beingarjo, in the province of Java Oriental.

The authorities argue that the incident occurred while works were carried out on the fourth floor. “It is suspected that the foundations were not strong enough and the building collapsed from the fourth floor to the ground floor,” they said Monday.

A group of operators poured cement when the building collapsed, as explained by the National Search and Rescue Agency of Indonesia (Basarnas) in a statement.

There is at least one deceased, says the statement, that It does not need if it is a student. It indicates that there were around one hundred at the time of the building collapse, without specifying its ages.

Rescuers continue rescue work between the ruins of the boarding school, where two teams had already moved last night. “Rescue teams try to create access to evacuate victims (…) The problem is that The situation of the building is very unstable And there is a lot of material to withdraw, “he told the agency Efe From the area the rescuer Tholib Vatelahan.

“Despite the instability of the building’s debris and the large amount of material in the place, the search and rescue team continues to evacuate the victims, while prioritizing security,” Nang Sigit, coordinator of the operation, points out in a statement.