JAKARTA
\nThe number of students confirmed dead after the collapse of an Islamic boarding school building in Indonesia rose to 36, from 16 a day earlier, the country\u2019s disaster mitigation agency said on Sunday.
\nEfforts continued for a seventh day to search for the bodies of 27 students still declared missing\u2013mostly teenage boys from the ages of 13 to 19\u2013trapped under the rubble, the agency said.
\nCranes were deployed to excavate debris and search and evacuation efforts were 60% complete, according to the agency, which said it expected to clear all debris and finish the search on Monday.
\nThe Al Khoziny school in the town of Sidoarjo in East Java province caved in last Monday, collapsing on top of hundreds of teenage students during afternoon prayers, its foundations unable to support ongoing construction work on its upper floors.
\nOn Friday, rescuers received the parents\u2019 permission to make use of heavy equipment after failing to find signs of life during previous efforts.
\nRescuers dug through tunnels in the remains of the building, calling out the boys\u2019 names and using sensors to detect any movement, but found no signs of life.
\nAl Khoziny is an Islamic boarding school known locally as a pesantren.
\nIndonesia, the world\u2019s largest Muslim-majority nation, has about 42,000 pesantren serving 7 million students, according to religious affairs ministry data.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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