Jakarta, Sept. 30 -- The second-floor prayer hall of an Islamic boarding school in the town of Sidoarjo, East Java province of Indonesia, collapsed while more than 100 students were performing afternoon prayers on September 29. The incident at the Al Khoziny Islamic boarding school occurred at around 2:40pm. A witness described the hall shaking before the collapse. Some students managed to escape while many others were trapped in the rubble. Rescuers and dozens of ambulances were quickly deployed to the scene to search for the victims and deliver the injured to nearby hospitals and clinics. As of September 29 evening, local authorities had not yet released an official count of casualties or confirmed the exact cause of the collapse./.
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