Race for survivors after Indonesian school collapse
Global News Podcast
BBC
4.3 • 8.2K Ratings
🗓️ 1 October 2025
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
The race to save dozens of students after a school collapses in Indonesia. At least four students were killed and about 100 injured, some critically, after the two-storey Islamic Boarding School in East Java caved in. Hundreds of students, most of them teenage boys, had gathered to pray in the building when it gave way. The authorities on Wednesday said crying and shouting could still be heard from under the rubble, while anxious relatives who had camped out at the school overnight awaited news of their loved ones.
Also: shutdown at Oktoberfest after an explosion in Munich, the controversial South African opposition politician Julius Malema is found guilty of gun charges, dozens are dead after an earthquake in the Philippines, and Indian doctors get help with their handwriting.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Global News Podcasts. |
| 0:06.0 | This is the Global News podcast from the BBC World Service. |
| 0:11.8 | I'm Jean-Urille, and at 16 hours GMT on Wednesday the 1st of October, these are our main stories. |
| 0:18.5 | Two days on from the collapse of a school, rescuers in Indonesia |
| 0:21.6 | continue to search for dozens of boys buried in the rubble. The radical South African politician |
| 0:28.3 | Julius Malema is found guilty of firing a gun in a public place. The International Red Cross |
| 0:34.6 | is forced to cease operations in Gaza City because of the intensity of the Israeli offensive there. |
| 0:44.1 | Also in this podcast, we've reached 72 million more children this year. |
| 0:50.5 | We've saved 1.7 million children from future deaths. |
| 0:55.2 | A record-breaking year for immunizations across the globe. |
| 1:05.1 | Rescuers in Indonesia are racing to try to reach dozens of people |
| 1:09.3 | believed to be trapped under the rubble of a school building |
| 1:12.2 | two days after it suddenly collapsed, killing several people. |
| 1:16.9 | Officials say the two-story building fell down because its foundations were not stable enough |
| 1:21.9 | to support the weight of two more floors that were being added to it. |
| 1:26.9 | Seven of those stuck in the rubble are responding to the rescuers |
| 1:30.2 | and are receiving food and water as a delicate work of extricating them continues. |
| 1:36.2 | This man, Shola Houdin, is waiting for news of his 15-year-old son. |
| 1:40.6 | He says the parents have offered to help in the search. |
| 1:45.3 | They need to clear the rubble as soon as possible. |
| 1:49.2 | There are so many of us, parents and guardians, who want to help, |
| 1:53.0 | but we haven't had approval yet from the search and rescue team. |
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