Debris is cleared from the site where a school building collapsed in Sidoarjo in East Java. Photo: AP PHOTO

The number of students confirmed dead after the collapse of an Islamic school building in Indonesia's East Java province has risen to nine as the search for survivors continues.

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The Al Khoziny school in the town of Sidoarjo collapsed on Monday, cratering upon hundreds of teenage students during afternoon prayer, its foundations unable to support ongoing construction work on its upper floors.

Thirty ambulances had been prepared as rescuers continued looking for more than 50 st

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