Latvian Prime Minister Valdis Dombrovskis, the Baltic state’s longest serving premier, giving a press conference after resigning on Wednesday (Thursday in Manila) over a deadly supermarket collapse that killed 54 people on November 21. AFP PHOTO
Latvian Prime Minister Valdis Dombrovskis, the Baltic state’s longest serving premier, giving a press conference after resigning on Wednesday (Thursday in Manila) over a deadly supermarket collapse that killed 54 people on November 21. AFP PHOTO

RIGA: Latvia’s prime minister resigned on Wednesday (Thursday in Manila), in the wake of a supermarket roof cave-in that killed 54 people, just weeks before the country enters the eurozone.

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