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Zolitūde shopping centre roof collapse

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Zolitūde shopping centre roof collapse

On 21 November 2013, the roof of a shopping centre in the Zolitūde neighbourhood of Riga, Latvia, collapsed at 17:41 local time. The disaster killed 54 people, including three rescue workers; another 41 were injured.[2] An unknown number of people were able to leave the store on their own after the initial collapse.[3] It was the worst disaster in Latvia since 1950, when the steamer Mayakovsky sank in Riga, killing 147 people.[4]

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