Moscow families prepare to send bodies home

Relatives carried the bodies of victims of a roof collapse at a Moscow market out of a morgue in wooden boxes today to put them on flights home, while the discovery of more corpses in the rubble brought the death toll to 66.

Five bodies were found overnight and during the day by emergency workers picking through the ruins of the building, raising the toll in Thursday morning’s disaster from 61, a duty officer at the Emergency Situations Ministry said. Of 32 people listed as injured, 24 remained hospitalised, he said.