51 Dead As Latvia Supermarket Caves-In

[Shola Sholaz]

Rescuers on Friday pulled bodies from the rubble of a Latvian supermarket after its roof caved in on shoppers, leaving 51 dead in one of Europe's worst such disasters in decades.
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Hopes of finding further survivors were dwindling more than 24 hours after the roof of the Maxima supermarket collapsed during peak shopping hours around 6:00 pm on Thursday, in the Zolitude district of the Latvian capital.
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"The death toll is now 51," Toms Sadovskis, state police spokesman told AFP late Friday.
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Riga mayor Nils Usakovs earlier said around 30 other victims were still thought to be trapped under the debris, but he later lowered the toll to just five.
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"According to the latest information, there may be five more people beneath the rubble," he wrote on Twitter, without explaining the revised figure.
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Three firefighters among the 200 rescuers who rushed to the scene were among those killed, while other rescue workers became themselves trapped inside during a second collapse.
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"Everything was crashing down: the walls, the roof, everything!" one witness named Jana told LNT television in the capital Riga, where flags were draped with black mourning ribbons.
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"I don't know what happened to the cashiers — if you were sitting down, there is no way you could have got out in time," she said.
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Speculation about the possible cause of the cave-in has centred on plans to build a rooftop garden on the building.

[femifemzy3]

This is another sad news this year. 51 people? Too bad! R.I.P to them all