After an all-night search, an adolescent boy was found on Wednesday morning, followed a few hours later by a second, officials in the resort town of Bad Reichenhall in the German Alps said.
A woman and a young girl who were trapped inside the vast pile of concrete and metal, were believed to be dead, Hubertus Andrae, the police chief of the nearby town of Traunstein, said.
"There is no sign of life," Andrae told a press conference.
He said that rescuers had been painstakingly searching for the two with the help of sniffer dogs.
"It is a difficult, slow search. Every time the men searching have to try and establish whether the dogs have identified the right spot."
Rudi Zeif, the fire services chief in Bad Reichenhall, vowed that the search, which involves some 200 rescue workers, would go on until the last of the missing had been recovered.
Of the 13 people found dead since the roof of the ice skating rink collapsed amid heavy snow on Monday, 11 were children or adolescents. The other two victims were women of around 40.
All those found so far are from the region, and as darkness fell on Tuesday in the town of 18,000, several hundred people gathered in front of the town hall for a candlelit vigil for the dead.
According to local radio, a funeral ceremony would be held next Tuesday.
Thirty-four people were injured when the roof collapsed some 15 minutes before the rink was due to close for the day. Thirteen of them were still in hospital but their lives were not in danger, according to German radio.
Chancellor Angela Merkel on Tuesday expressed her condolences to grieving families and said that the federal government would do everything in its power to help the Bavarian state authorities cope with the disaster.
"I, and all of us, have been particularly moved by the cruel fate suffered above all by children and adolescents who wanted to spend a carefree holiday with their family members," she said.
"We are mourning with the loved ones and our thoughts are with those who lost friends."
It was not immediately clear what caused the flat roof of the building to cave in, in a region accustomed to heavy snowfall.
Der Tagesspiegel newspaper on Wednesday cited weather services as saying that there must have been about 180 tons of snow on the roof when it collapsed.
The coach of a local ice hockey club, Thomas Rumpeltes, said that the snow was due to have been cleared from the roof before the accident.
Rumpeltes said that authorities told him of the impending clearance shortly before the accident and he canceled a practice at the rink for a youth team.
He said that no one had warned of any risk of the roof being unstable and that the snow removal was a precautionary measure.
Mayor Wolfgang Heitmeier has dismissed accusations of negligence for allowing the rink to remain open, saying that the roof had been examined in the late morning on Monday to determine whether it could withstand the weight of the snow.
He rejected speculation that the authorities knew of structural problems, saying that he "could not explain" what caused the collapse.
State prosecutor Helmut Vordermayer has said that evidence was being collected and a probe into the accident had been opened.
A member of the board of the German Alliance of Cities and Towns said that calls for stronger safety measures were not appropriate this time as "we first need to determine the causes" of the accident.
BAD REICHENHALL, Germany - The body of a woman has been found in the wreckage of a collapsed ice rink in this southern German town, raising the death toll to at least 14, the N24 news channel reported on Wednesday.
Rescuers had located her body but had not been able to remove it from under the rubble of the collapsed roof at the rink in the Alpine resort of Bad Reichenhall, the station said.
They were still searching for a girl who is believed to be the last person trapped in the wreckage.
© 2005 Agence France-Presse
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