Ambulances stood by as rescuers looked for 50 students still trapped under the rubble of a school. Photo: AP PHOTO

The number of students confirmed dead after the collapse of an Islamic school building in Indonesia have risen to 13, the country's disaster mitigation agency says as the search for survivors continues.

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The Al Khoziny school in the town of Sidoarjo in East Java province caved in on Monday, cratering upon hundreds of teenage students during afternoon prayer, its foundations unable to support ongoing construction work on its upper floors.

Thirty ambulances were prepared

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