10 die in Russian roof collapse

At least 10 people were killed and several more injured when the roof of a public swimming pool collapsed in the Urals region of Russia.

Of the 10 victims, six were children between 9 and 12 years old and four women, local emergency staff said. Earlier officials said that only eight bodies were found, but then "two more bodies - those of a woman and a girl - were recovered from underneath the ruined roof that fell into the pool".

There could be more bodies under the 100sq m roof, which collapsed yesterday at the municipal pool in Chusovoi, a town near Perm in the Ural mountains. Up to 30 people could have been in the pool at the time of the accident. Prosecutors have opened a criminal investigation.