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Four Indonesian construction workers were found dead and three more remained trapped under rubble a day after a vacant supermarket building in Malaysia collapsed during demolition, reports said on Friday.

The Foreign Affairs Ministry could not immediately confirm the figures, saying it was awaiting details from Kuala Lumpur.

The workers died when the demolition of the Jaya Supermarket in Petaling Jaya city went awry, a ministry official said.

Nine Indonesian workers were trapped under the building, which collapsed at around 5 p.m. on Thursday, Bernama news agency said. Two workers were rescued and four others were pulled out dead, it said, while three more workers remained trapped under concrete.

Bernama quoted Datuk Seri Lajim Ukim, the deputy housing and local government minister, as saying early evidence indicated overloading by heavy machinery may have caused the collapse.

He said that eight heavy demolition tractors were in the building when the incident occurred.

Datuk Seri Kong Cho Ha, the housing and local government minister, was quoted by The Star Online as saying that he would seek “an explanation from the contractor involved in the demolition on the methods the company has used.”

Arjunaidi Mohamed, the head of Petaling Jaya Police, was quoted by Bernama as saying that three of the four bodies have so far been identified. Those were Alsuki Nahru, 58, Muhammad Maskur, 31, and Anwaruddin.

But Teguh Wardoyo, head of the Foreign Ministry unit charged with protecting Indonesians overseas, said he had not received official word on the victims’ identities. “We are still waiting on news from our consulate general officials in Kuala Lumpur on the final identification, as their bodies were trapped in ruins.”

The bodies will be sent home after an autopsy, the Indonesian Embassy in Kuala Lumpur said.