Bodies pulled from Czech hotel debris

Rescue workers fear they will not find any more survivors

Three people were killed and three others are feared dead after part of a hotel collapsed in the Czech town of Louny, near Prague.

The bodies of a man, a woman, and a young girl have already been pulled from the debris created when part of the four-storey Hotel Okara caved in on Monday morning.

Three people are still missing.

Rescue workers with trained dogs are still combing the rubble, but say the chances of finding someone alive are slim.

"There is a threat that the walls will collapse, we must be very careful," said Louny fire chief Karel Mahovsky.

Explosion fears

A Polish woman told the Czech news agency CTK she feared she had lost all her family in the collapsed building.

"I have there my mother, my father, my brother and his wife and a five-year-old girl," she said.

It is still unclear what caused the 12-year-old building to collapse, but reports of an explosion prior to the incident are being investigated.

A total of 15 people were evacuated from the hotel on Monday morning, three of whom have been taken to hospital.

They are all believed to be Polish nationals.