Rescue operations are continuing in a bid to find survivors at a collapsed school in East Java. Photo: EPA PHOTO
Indonesian rescuers are racing against time to extricate nearly 60 teenagers trapped under the remains of an Islamic boarding school that collapsed earlier this week due to foundation failure.
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The Al Khoziny school, located in the East Java town of Sidoarjo, some 772km east from the capital Jakarta, collapsed when its foundations could not support ongoing construction work on the upper floors, cratering upon dozens of students who were praying and trapping them under rubb