Three bodies have been found in a desperate search for a school volleyball team following the devastating earthquake that struck Turkey and Syria.
Rescuers in Turkey had been searching a collapsed hotel for the young group of volleyball players who were missing after the earthquake struck.
It is believed a group of 39 people, comprising of boys' and girls' teams and teachers, were staying in the Isias Hotel in the centre of Adiyaman, which came down when the 7.8 magnitude quake hit.
And the city centre was left in complete wreckage as the quake destroyed a host of multi-storey buildings and left thousands trapped in the rubble.
It is now being reported that the dead bodies of two teachers and a student have been recovered from the seven-storey hotel that the group had been staying in.
The BBC has confirmed that the bodies, including one eighth-grade student, were discovered on Wednesday.
There have so far been four known survivors to have escaped the rubble without the help of rescuers.
Search efforts have continued in a bid to rescue the other members of the touring party who are still missing. The group had travelled for the trip from the Turkish-controlled coastal town of Famagusta in Northern Cyprus.
The young athletes were visiting the city from Famagusta Turkish Maarif College along with teachers and parents.
A huge 170-strong contingent of relatives and rescuers have now made their own way to the wreckage after Monday's disaster.
The BBC are also reporting that one teacher who survived the crushing quake is fearing for her daughter who is still trapped in the wreckage.
More than 17,000 people are now confirmed to have died after Monday's quake that has ravaged the southern Turkey and northern Syria region.
And rescuers' hopes of saving the volleyball group appear to be fading as the search for survivors of one of the world's deadliest quakes enters a third day.
