{"id":74611,"date":"2025-10-06T10:08:46","date_gmt":"2025-10-06T01:08:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/oct\/06\/indonesia-school-collapse-death-toll-rises-as-search-for-missing-students-continues"},"modified":"2025-10-06T10:08:46","modified_gmt":"2025-10-06T01:08:46","slug":"indonesia-school-collapse-death-toll-reaches-49-as-search-for-missing-students-continues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=74611","title":{"rendered":"Indonesia school collapse death toll reaches 49 as search for missing students continues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Excavators used to remove rubble while 14 people reportedly still unaccounted for and police allege building work was being carried out without a permit<\/p>\n<p>Indonesian rescuers searching for missing students after a prayer hall at an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/oct\/04\/indonesian-school-collapse-death-toll-rises-to-14-as-crews-pull-more-bodies-from-rubble\">Islamic boarding school collapsed<\/a> last week recovered the bodies of dozens of students over the weekend, bringing the confirmed death toll to 49.<\/p>\n<p>Using heavy excavators equipped with jackhammers, circular saws and sometimes their bare hands, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/oct\/01\/indonesia-school-collapse-rescue-search-update-al-khoziny-building-sidoarjo\">rescue teams removed tons of rubble<\/a> in an attempt to find the 14 students reportedly still missing. Rescuers found 35 bodies over the weekend alone, the National Disaster Mitigation Agency said.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/oct\/06\/indonesia-school-collapse-death-toll-rises-as-search-for-missing-students-continues\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Excavators used to remove rubble while 14 people reportedly still unaccounted for and police allege building work was being carried out without a permitIndonesian rescuers searching for missing students after a prayer hall at an Islamic boarding school&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,156],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74611","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-indonesia"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74611","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=74611"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74611\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74621,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74611\/revisions\/74621"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=74611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=74611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=74611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}