Hopes for dozens of students feared trapped in rubble at a collapsed boarding school have turned to anguish as authorities shift their focus from rescue to recovery. Relatives of the missing students collapsed in the streets around the site and wailed in anguish upon hearing the news. He said it had long been suspected that most of the students trapped inside the school had perished. “He has been at the boarding school for two years and four months,” Ichsan, who is from Madura, an island about 33km northeast of Sidoarjo, told Al Jazeera. “We chose this boarding school as it is known for providing a high-quality education.