No more signs of life in Indonesia school collapse: rescuers

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Above, the cordoned off area at the Al-Khoziny Islamic boarding school in Sidoarjo, East Java province on Oct. 2, 2025, after a multi-story building at the school collapsed. (AFP)
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  • Disaster mitigation chief: ‘We used high-tech equipment like thermal drones, and, scientifically, there were no more signs of life’

SIDOARJO, Indonesia: Rescuers detected “no more signs of life” under the rubble of a collapsed Indonesian school where 59 people remain missing, an official said Thursday, raising fears no more survivors would be found.
“We used high-tech equipment like thermal drones, and, scientifically, there were no more signs of life,” said Suharyanto, the head of the country’s disaster mitigation agency, during a press briefing at the site of Monday’s collapse in eastern Java.

Topics: Indonesia