Indonesian rescuers were locked in a desperate race against time to free nearly 60 teenagers trapped beneath the rubble of an Islamic boarding school, which collapsed earlier this week following a foundation failure, disaster authorities said on Thursday.

The Al Khoziny school, located in the East Java town of Sidoarjo, some 480 miles east of the capital Jakarta, collapsed when its foundations could not support ongoing construction work on the upper floors, cratering upon dozens of students who were praying and trapping them under rubble.

Abdul Muhari, spokesperson with the disaster mitigation agency, said in a statement on Thursday that 59 people remained trapped, based on the school’s list of absences and missing person reports filed by families.

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