Rescuers have pulled five survivors from a collapsed school building in Indonesia amid efforts to save dozens of children believed to be trapped under the rubble two days later.

Part of the multistorey Al-Khoziny Islamic boarding school in Sidoarjo, on the island of Java, gave way suddenly on Monday as students gathered for afternoon prayers.

“Today we managed to evacuate seven victims, five of them were rescued alive, and two were found dead,” Yudhi Bramantyo, operational director of the search and rescue services, told a news briefing. “The five survivors were able to communicate.”

The retrieval of two bodies brings the total number of people killed in the disaster to five.

National Disaster and Mitigation Agency spokesperson Abdul Muhari said 91 people were suspected to be buried

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