Latvia store collapse maxima supermarket

 Designs show how the building was due to look on completion.







At least 51 people are known to have died when the roof of a supermarket collapsed in the Latvian capital Riga.
Rescue efforts are continuing and police have launched a criminal investigation into Thursday's collapse.
Three of those killed were emergency workers who were helping people trapped when more of the roof came down.
It is the deadliest disaster in the former Soviet republic since it became independent in 1991. Police expect the death toll to rise further.
It is unclear how many more people could still be inside, and the rescue effort is likely to go on through the night.

Latvia's government has declared there will be three days of mourning starting Saturday.

The cause of the collapse is unclear, although building work was being carried out and a garden was being constructed on the roof at the time.
British pilot Paul Tribble, 27, was shopping in the store when the roof fell in.
"I was taken down by shelving falling on me, which skimmed my shoulder and forced me to the ground but I was still able to move," he told the BBC.
"There were torrents of water coming down off the roof. We headed into the back of the supermarket, the aisles were covered in produce and concrete and people lying on the floor."
Mr Tribble said a crane had been loading sand and building materials

onto the roof in recent weeks. He said he believed a lack of drainage following heavy rains had contributed to the fall.
Prime Minister Valdis Dombrovskis, who visited the scene on Friday, said: "The criminal process has started about violating building standards."
Interior Minister Rihards Kozlovskis told Latvian TV it was "clear" there had been a problem meeting building regulations.

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