{"id":38654,"date":"2025-10-06T07:10:41","date_gmt":"2025-10-06T07:10:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/death-toll-from-indonesia-school-collapse-rises-to-54\/"},"modified":"2025-10-06T07:10:42","modified_gmt":"2025-10-06T07:10:42","slug":"death-toll-from-indonesia-school-collapse-rises-to-54","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/death-toll-from-indonesia-school-collapse-rises-to-54\/","title":{"rendered":"Death toll from Indonesia school collapse rises to 54"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-component=\"text-block\">\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 bJoRPJ\">The death toll from the collapse of a school in Indonesia has risen to 54, authorities said, with rescuers still searching for more than a dozen missing people.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 bJoRPJ\">Hundreds of students, most of them teenage boys, had gathered for prayers at the Al Khoziny Islamic boarding school in East Java when <a target=\"_self\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/c8d783yjvpyo\" class=\"sc-f9178328-0 jZoZnB\">it collapsed last Monday<\/a> while undergoing construction.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 bJoRPJ\">Indonesia&#8217;s disaster mitigation agency says it is the country&#8217;s deadliest disaster this year. Rescuers are expected to complete their search for 13 victims trapped under the rubble by the end of the day.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 bJoRPJ\">Investigators are still looking into the cause of the collapse. Some officials said the two-storey building caved in because its foundation was unstable.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div data-component=\"text-block\">\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 bJoRPJ\">&#8220;Out of all the disasters in 2025, natural or not, there hasn&#8217;t been as many dead victims as the ones in Sidoarjo,&#8221; Budi Irawan, a deputy at the disaster mitigation agency, told a press conference.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 bJoRPJ\">The toll includes at least two people who were freed from the debris but later died in hospital.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 bJoRPJ\">Al Khoziny is a traditional Islamic boarding school in Indonesia known as a pesantren. <\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 bJoRPJ\">Many pesantren operate informally, without strong regulation or consistent monitoring. It is unclear if Al Khoziny had a permit to undertake additional construction.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 bJoRPJ\">Search and rescue operations have been challenging because of the way the building had collapsed, leaving only narrow voids for rescuers to maneuver in, authorities said last week.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 bJoRPJ\">Survivors have spoken of their harrowing escapes to local media. <\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 bJoRPJ\">Muhammad Rijalul Qoib told Detik News he first &#8220;heard the sound of falling rocks&#8221;, which &#8220;got louder and louder&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 bJoRPJ\">The 13-year-old ran for the door immediately, and while he managed to escape, he was wounded by falling debris from the roof.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/c87yvdpld59o?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The death toll from the collapse of a school in Indonesia has risen to 54, authorities said, with rescuers still searching for more than a dozen missing people. Hundreds of students, most of them teenage boys, had gathered for prayers at the Al Khoziny Islamic boarding school in East Java when it collapsed last Monday [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":38655,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[304,715,3655,1287,210,543],"class_list":["post-38654","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-top-news","tag-collapse","tag-death","tag-indonesia","tag-rises","tag-school","tag-toll"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38654","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38654"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38654\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38656,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38654\/revisions\/38656"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38655"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}