Rescuers pulled five survivors from a collapsed school in Indonesia on Wednesday as frantic parents demanded searchers speed up efforts to find dozens of children believed to still be trapped in the rubble two days on.
Part of the multistory boarding school, in the town of Sidoarjo on the island of Java, gave way suddenly on Monday as students gathered for afternoon prayers.
"Today we managed to evacuate seven victims, five of them were rescued alive, and two were found dead," Yudhi Bramantyo, operational director of the search and rescue services, told a press briefing in Sidoarjo, 30 kilometers from the city of Surabaya.
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