Rescuers use heavy machinery as hopes fade of finding school collapse survivors

Rescuers use a crane to clear rubble at the site where the boarding school building collapsed in Sidoarjo (Trisnadi/AP)

Indonesian rescue authorities have begun using heavy machinery to move large sections of a collapsed school, with no more signs of life from beneath the rubble and nearly 60 teenage students still unaccounted for.

Government minister Pratikno told reporters on the scene in Sidoarjo that the decision had been made in consultation with the families of those still missing.