date:Dec 02, 2013
Berzins is now considering appointing a new government. Elections are not scheduled until October next year.
The collapse was the biggest loss of life since Latvia became independent from the USSR in 1991.
Police have opened a criminal investigation into the cause of the disaster. Structural experts have suggested that the supermarket building itself may have been badly designed and so not able to support a garden that was being built on the roof. Substandard construction materials and corrup