Bucharest

Romania's president on Nov. 5 appointed Education Minister Sorin Campeanu as interim prime minister to replace Victor Ponta, who quit following mass anti-government protests sparked by a deadly nightclub fire.

Leaders of nine Central, Eastern European and Baltic states meeting in Bucharest have said they are gravely concerned by Russia's "continuing aggressive posturing" and called for the eastern border of the Alliance to be strengthened.

At least five people were injured in an explosion followed by a fire occurring at a bread factory in the Romanian city of Brasov on Thursday evening.

Prefect Mihai Mohaci said that the five injured, who had not lost consciousness were transported to the County Emergency Hospital, AGERPRES news agency quotes him as saying.

Turkey has sent a medical team to Romania to support the treatment of two Turks injured in nightclub fire, Foreign Ministry spokesperson Tanju Bilgiç said on Nov. 5.

One of the Turkish nationals caught in the fire was severely injured and is under intensive care while the other has been released from hospital, he told reporters. 

Romanian Prime Minister Victor Ponta's resignation on Nov. 4, after a deadly nightclub blaze, has failed to stop tens of thousands from taking to the streets for a second night.

At least 30 000 people took to the streets of Romanian cities again on Wednesday, hours after the resignation of Prime Minister Victor Ponta's government.

Demonstrators blamed the incident at the Collectiv club in Bucharest which killed 32 people and injured hundreds last week.

Leaders of nine states of Central and Eastern Europe on Wednesday expressed grave concern over what they see as Russia's "continuing aggressive posturing" and military build-up from the Baltics to Syria, Reuters reported.

Romanian Prime Minister Victor Ponta announced the resignation of his government on Nov 4 following huge protests in the wake of a nightclub fire that killed more than 30 people.

Romanian Prime Minister Victor Ponta has announced that he is stepping down, a day after a mass protest in that country.

Romanian Prime Minister Victor Ponta submitted his resignation on Wednesday, AGERPRES news agency informs.

The news comes after a mass protest in Bucharest on Tuesday, which called for the government's resignation over the fire and explosion at the Colectiv night club in the Romanian capital last week, which claimed the lives of 32 people and left hundreds injured.