Overview
- Recovery crews using excavators and jackhammers found nine more bodies Friday, raising the confirmed dead to 14, with nearly 50 students still unaccounted for.
- Authorities approved heavy machinery after thermal drones and sensors detected no signs of life under the debris.
- Families submitted DNA samples for identification as officials said recovery could be completed by late Saturday.
- The prayer hall at Al Khoziny Islamic boarding school gave way Monday during work to add two unpermitted floors above the original structure.
- More than 100 people were injured as teams contended with unstable rubble and a brief earthquake that temporarily halted operations.