JAKARTA, Oct. 5 -- The death toll from the collapse of an Islamic boarding school building in Indonesia's East Java province has climbed to 36, up from 16 a day earlier, according to the country's disaster mitigation on Sunday.

Rescue teams have continued their search for a seventh consecutive day, working tirelessly to locate 27 students still missing, most of them teenage boys aged between 13 and 19.

The tragic incident occurred at the Al Khoziny Islamic boarding school (pesantren) in Sidoarjo, where the building collapsed during afternoon prayers last Monday. Officials said the structure's foundation gave way due to ongoing construction work on its upper floors, causing it to cave in on hundreds of students.

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