MOZDOK (Russia), Aug 3: More than a thousand rescuers continued early on Sunday to remove the rubble of a Russian military hospital after a second night of relentless work, in a desperate search for survivors of a suicide attack that has claimed at least 49 lives.

Rescue workers have discovered five more bodies from the debris of the hospital, the head of the Russian emergencies ministry’s crises department said.

This brought the number of people killed in Friday’s attack in southern Russia to at least 49, the Interfax news agency quoted General Sergei Salov as saying.

Around 1,300 volunteers and rescuers worked to remove the debris, taking five-minute breaks every hour to listen for voices of people still believed to be trapped.—AFP