RESCUE workers have retrieved 45 bodies from the rubble of a supermarket in the Latvian capital Riga a day after a large section of its roof collapsed.
The Maxima supermarket in central Riga was full of shoppers when the roof caved in Thursday evening.
Latvian media reported that dozens more victims might be found, with officials saying that the number of people missing was unclear.
By 1pm on Friday, just 900 of 1500 square metres of the affected area had been cleared, fire brigade spokesman Normunds Plegermanis told the BNS news agency.
Thirty-five people were injured and hospitals were calling for more blood donations.
Interior Minister Rihards Kozlovskis said it was "a tragic and black day" in the history of Latvia.
Among the dead were also three firemen, who were killed when additional sections of the roof collapsed as they worked.
Witnesses said that they heard an alarm before the roof caved in.
Gintaras Jasinskas, a board member of supermarket operator Maxima Latvia, said that nobody had been evacuated because there were "no obvious signs of fire," BNS reported.
Police are investigating the operator for failure to react to warnings.
Latvian media reported that the roof had been undergoing reconstruction. The building was only completed in 2011.
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