"One Belgian, two Germans, including a woman, two Slovaks, two Czechs and one Dutch national were among the fatalities," Dariusz Kotulski, captain of the fire brigade in Chorzow, told AFP Sunday.

Kotulski was unable to confirm a statement by Chorzow prosecutor Bogdan Labuzek that a Romanian national was also among those who lost their lives when the roof of Chorzow's exhibition hall caved in on Saturday, when the venue was packed with some 200 visitors to a racing pigeon show.

But the fire chief was the first Polish official to confirm that a Dutchman was among the victims of the Chorzow disaster.

Frederic Basch of the Netherlands had told AFP earlier that he saw his father, Dick, die when the exhibition hall caved in.

Basch and his father had travelled to Chorzow from Deil in the Netherlands, and had a stand at the show, where they were among some 20 Dutch racing pigeon enthusiasts.

At least four of the 66 bodies pulled out of the crush of metal at the collapsed exhibition hall still had to be identified, Kotulski said.

Late Sunday, 76 of the 141 people who were injured in the accident were still in hospital, according to Poland's PAP news agency.

A rescue team with a specially trained sniffer dog will search the rubble for more bodies Monday.

The show in Chorzow is the fourth most important exhibition for racing pigeon enthusiasts in Europe, after exhibits in Dortmund and Kassel in Germany, and Blackpool in Britain.

NPO, the Dutch organisation for pigeon-lovers, told AFP there were some 300,000 racing pigeon enthusiasts in 9,400 clubs across the European Union and Switzerland.

Poland counts some 43,000 enthusiasts, many of them miners from Silesia, the sprawling industrial region in southern Poland which is home to Chorzow.

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