Surabaya, East Java, Oct. 3 -- The Indonesian Police have announced that DNA testing will be used to identify victims of the Al Khoziny Islamic boarding school building collapse in Sidoarjo, East Java.

Director of Disaster Victim Identification (DVI) at the police's Medical and Health Center, Senior Commissioner Wahyu Hidajati, explained that fingerprint identification is no longer possible due to the condition of the bodies.

"The average age of the five victims we are examining is between 12 and 15 years old. Their fingerprints cannot be used because the bodies have begun to decompose," she said at Surabaya's Bhayangkara Police Hospital, where the victims were evacuated, on Friday evening.

Attempts to identify the victims through dent...