The anxiety gripped Jayanti Mandasari as soon as she got off the phone with her son M. Muhfi Alfian on Monday.
A generous boy, he had called to ask for money to treat his friends to some snacks. Despite the lighthearted nature of the call, she could not shake off her unexplained fears.
Those fears were confirmed when a younger sibling told her the Islamic boarding school Alfian attended, Al Khoziny, had collapsed during afternoon prayers on the same day, killing at least five people and trapping dozens of students and several workers in the rubble.
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