ALMATY, Kazakhstan -- Rescuers pulled six bodies from a mass of mangled beams at Russia's main space launch site and searched for two other workers feared dead Monday after the towering hangar roof they were standing on collapsed.
Emergency officials held out little hope that anyone had survived the accident Sunday at the Baikonur cosmodrome in the former Soviet republic of Kazakhstan. An eight-man construction brigade was on the roof of the 260-foot-tall hangar when it caved in. The hangar was still cordoned off Monday because of fears that the walls could collapse.
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