2 w. ago ‘Enormous explosion’: 3 injured in Madrid building collapse, 5 missing

A building under construction in Madrid’s tourist city centre collapsed on Tuesday, injuring three workers, with some missing, Spanish emergency services said. They said on social media that firefighters were working at the scene near the Spanish capital’s emblematic Plaza Mayor “after the collapse of various floor slabs” and that “the workers report some colleagues missing”. Madrid’s mayor, Jose Luis Martinez-Almeida said on social media that one of the injured workers had been taken to...

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2 w. ago 4 missing after Madrid building partly collapses after ‘enormous explosion’

Spanish emergency services were scrambling to find four people who went missing after a building under construction in Madrid city centre collapsed on Tuesday, injuring several workers, authorities said. Emergency services said on social media that firefighters were working at the scene near the Plaza Mayor, which is popular with tourists, “after the collapse of various floor slabs”. The central government’s top representative in the Madrid region, Francisco Martin Aguirre, told reporters at the...

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2 w. ago Indonesia’s Islamic schools under scrutiny after 67 killed in building collapse

Indonesia has pledged tighter management of Islamic boarding schools after the tragic collapse of one that killed at least 67 people, with the incident drawing attention to long-standing concerns about the lack of oversight and funding for the country’s vast network of faith-based schools. The disaster – Indonesia’s deadliest so far this year – occurred on September 29, when a three-storey mosque inside the Al Khoziny Islamic Boarding School complex in Sidoarjo, East Java, caved in during...

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3 w. ago 91 students still trapped 2 days after Indonesian school collapses

At least 91 students remain trapped in concrete rubble almost two days after an Islamic school building in Sidoarjo, Indonesia, collapsed on them, authorities said after reviewing attendance records and reports from anxious families of those missing. More than 300 rescuers desperately worked to free survivors on Wednesday morning, after the structure fell on top of hundreds of people, mostly teen boys, who had been performing afternoon prayers on Monday in a prayer hall at the century-old Al...

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3 w. ago Islamic school in Indonesia collapses, killing 1 pupil and injuring 83

A building under construction at an Islamic boarding school in Indonesia collapsed on dozens of praying students Monday, killing at least one pupil, injuring dozens and burying others in the rubble, officials said. Police, soldiers and rescuers dug into the debris through the night in attempts to locate at least three additional pupils believed to be trapped alive at Al Khoziny Islamic Boarding School in the East Java town of Sidoarjo. Rescuers also said they saw additional bodies, indicating...

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3 w. ago Islamic school in Indonesia collapses, killing 1 pupil and injuring 99

Rescuers ran oxygen and water to students trapped in the unstable concrete rubble of a collapsed school building in Indonesia, as they desperately worked to free survivors on Tuesday morning, more than 12 hours after the structure fell. At least one student was killed, dozens were injured and 65 were presumed buried in the rubble. Rescuers, police and soldiers digging through the night pulled out eight weak and injured survivors more than eight hours after the collapse at Al Khoziny Islamic...

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3 w. ago Islamic school in Indonesia collapses, killing 3 pupils and injuring dozens more

Rescuers ran oxygen and water to students trapped in the unstable concrete rubble of a collapsed school building in Indonesia, as they desperately worked to free survivors on Tuesday morning, more than 12 hours after the structure fell. At least three students were killed, more than 100 were injured, and dozens were presumed buried in the rubble. Rescuers, police and soldiers digging through the night pulled out eight weak and injured survivors more than eight hours after the collapse at Al...

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