The roof of a Latvian supermarket collapsed on Thursday, killing at least 53 people. They are still searching for more survivors. The president describes the incident as "basically mass murder", and authorities are saying that they suspect the reason for this to happen was a bunch of supplies and materials stored on the roof. The people there will be mourning until Monday, and the government has decided to give quite large amounts of money to the families of firefighters that died in a second collapse that happened after rescue workers had arrived at the site. Other rescue workers' injuries will also be paid for. This is reported to be the deadliest accident in the Baltic state since they gained independence from the Soviet Union in 1991.
It's terrible that an accident like this could be described as a mass murder. I hope other supermarkets and companies take this into consideration and make sure not to store anything on the roofs of their buildings anymore. My heart goes out to the families of all the people injured and killed, but I do think that the president and government is handling it well by paying for certain injuries and such. Hopefully people learn their lessons from this horrible accident and it doesn't happen again.
Source: http://www.cnn.com/2013/11/23/world/europe/latvia-roof-collapse-president/index.html?hpt=ieu_c2
This is scary. Companies and employees need to be more careful and care about logistics like this, or stuff like this will keep happening
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