Poland roof collapse fatalities rise to 66
published: Monday | January 30, 2006

Rescue staff yesterday work at the site where the roof of an exhibition hall collapsed in the southern Polish city of Chorzow. At least 66 people were killed and 120 injured when the roof collapsed on Saturday. - REUTERS

KATOWICE, POLAND (AP):

RESCUERS SAID yesterday that after searching for more than 20 hours in the bitter cold, they did not expect to find any more bodies under the twisted wreckage of an exhibition hall in southern Poland city of Chorzow that collapsed during a racing pigeon show, killing 66 and injuring 160.

Rescue crews had used hand tools to carve through the sheet metal and snarled poles of the collapsed building so as not to risk harming any potential survivors.