Published: 14:53, October 2, 2025
Official: No signs of life detected in Indonesia school collapse
By Xinhua
Rescuers walk in the cordoned off area at the Al Khoziny Islamic boarding school in Sidoarjo, East Java province on Oct 2, 2025, after a multi-storey building at the school collapsed. (PHOTO / AFP)

JAKARTA - Rescuers have so far detected no further signs of life under the rubble of a collapsed school building in Indonesia's East Java province, the country's disaster agency said on Thursday.

"High-tech equipment such as thermal drones has been used, but no additional signs of life were found," Suharyanto, head of the National Disaster Management Agency, told a press briefing at the site of Monday's collapse in Sidoarjo district.

Abdul Muhari, spokesperson for the agency, said in a statement on Thursday that 59 people are still unaccounted for.

Search and rescue operations remain underway.