The death toll in the school building collapse in Indonesia’s Java rose to nine on Friday, after rescue authorities pulled out more bodies from the rubble, officials said. A part of the multi-storey Al Khoziny Islamic boarding school in the town of Sidoarjo had collapsed suddenly on Tuesday night as students gathered for afternoon prayers.

An Islamic boarding school collapsed in East Java, Indonesia, leaving 91 students trapped, 3 dead, and 100 injured. Rescue ops continue amid safety concerns

The anxiety gripped Jayanti Mandasari as soon as she got off the phone with her son M. Muhfi Alfian on Monday. Those fears were confirmed when a younger sibling told her the Islamic boarding school Alfian attended,