Swimming pool roof collapses in Russia: 14 die

Of the 14 victims, 10 were children between nine and 12 years old and four women, local emergency ministry official Anatoly Shinakov said as quoted by the ITAR-TASS news agency.

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," Shinakov said.

The eight bodies that had been recovered earlier had already been identified, Shinakov said.

"Only a little part of" the 100 square-metre (1,100 square-foot) roof, which collapsed on Sunday at the municipal pool in Chusovoi, a town near the city of Perm in the Ural mountains, "is yet to be cleared away, this is the hardest part, but will be only an hour of work," Shinakov said.

Up to 30 people could have been in the pool at the time of the accident, officials said.