One body, belonging to a fifth member of the group, had already been located after the incident on Thursday. The Italian nationals were found inside a 60-metre-deep (197ft) cave in Vaavu Atoll by a joint team of highly trained Finnish and Maldivian divers, according to local authorities. A rescue diver also died on Saturday while searching for the bodies of the group. "Further dives [are] to be carried out in the coming days to recover the bodies", Mohamed Hossain Shareef, a Maldivian government spokesperson, said in a message to the BBC. Two of the bodies would be recovered on Tuesday and the remaining two the following day, he said. Italy's foreign ministry said the four bodies were located in the cave's third section - the furthest from the entrance - and that additional dives would be needed to recover them. The body of the first Italian victim is believed to have been located near the entrance to the same cave on Thursday. The incident is believed to be the worst single diving accident in the tiny Indian Ocean nation, a popular tourist destination because of its string of coral islands. Police said the weather was rough in the area, about 100km (62 miles) south of the capital, Male, when the group went missing. A yellow warning was issued for passenger boats and fishermen. (BBC)