Russia: Moscow Swimming Pool Collapse Kills 21

Rescuers, who continued to dig through rubble all night in freezing temperatures in a bid to find survivors, found 20 bodies, including four children, in the ruins, officials were quoted by the ITAR-TASS news agency as saying.

One more man died of his injuries in a hospital.

Of the 110 people who were rushed to nearby hospitals so far, 90 remained in medical care, four of them in critical condition, officials said earlier, adding that 25 children were hospitalised.

Meanwhile, some 1,000 rescuers were forced to dig through rubble by hand, stopping in between their gruesome work to listen for voices below.

Search dogs were brought in to try and trace the survivors, but the attempt failed due to excessive steam.

Moscow Mayor Yury Luzhkov said that 1,300 people were in the health complex on Moscow’s southeastern outskirts when the roof fell. At least 350 people may have been in the section over which the concrete and glass dome collapsed.