No more signs of life in Indonesia school collapse: rescuers

Disaster mitigation chief: ‘We used high-tech equipment like thermal drones, and, scientifically, there were no more signs of life’

October 02, 2025 05:31

SIDOARJO, Indonesia: Rescuers detected “no more signs of life” under the rubble of a collapsed Indonesian school where 59 people remain missing, an official said Thursday, raising fears no more survivors would be found.

“We used high-tech equipment like thermal drones, and, scientifically, there were no more signs of life,” said Suharyanto, the head of the country’s disaster mitigation agency, during a press briefing at the site of Monday’s collapse in eastern Java.