The number of students confirmed dead after the collapse of an Islamic boarding school building in Indonesia has risen to 36, from 16 a day earlier, the country's disaster mitigation agency said on Sunday.

Efforts continued for a seventh day to search for the bodies of 27 students still declared missing — mostly teenage boys from the ages of 13 to 19 — trapped under the rubble, the agency said.

Indonesia boarding school collapse reflects a 'widespread' building problem Photo shows A group of rescuers running towards a collapsed building

An operation to rescue around 60 children trapped under an Islamic boarding school in Indonesia's East Java province has now shifted into a recovery operation, with the death toll expected to significantly rise.

Cranes were deployed to excavate deb

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