Rescue officials on Monday said the death toll from last week’s school collapse in Indonesia has risen to at least 54, after crews cleared nearly all the debris in what has become the country’s deadliest disaster of the year.

Piles of concrete caved in on hundreds of mostly teenage boys after the collapse of the Al Khoziny Islamic boarding school in the Indonesian town of Sidoarjo, in East Java province, trapping and later killing them.

Using excavators, rescuers late on Sunday cleared 80% of the debris and found bodies and body parts of the mostly teenage victims, the disaster mitigation agency said in a statement.

Budi Irawan, a deputy at the disaster mitigation agency, said a total of 50 people have died based on the bodies recovered, and rescuers were expected to finish their se

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