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Kenya police: 7 confirmed dead in building collapse

Kenya police: 7 confirmed dead in building collapse | iNFOnews.ca
Rescue workers search the site of a building collapse in Nairobi, Kenya, Saturday,April 30, 2016. A six-story residential building in a low income area of the Kenyan capital collapsed Friday under heavy rain and flooding, trapping an unknown number of people in the rubble, Kenyan officials said.(AP Photo/Sayyid Abdul Azim)
Original Publication Date: April 29, 2016 5:20PM
Publication Updated: April 28, 2025 12:00PM

NAIROBI, Kenya – Police in Nairobi say that seven people have been confirmed dead in the collapse of a residential building in a low-income area of the capital.

Search and rescue efforts were continuing at the scene Saturday morning.

Kenyan officials say the six-story building collapsed Friday under heavy rain and flooding, trapping an unknown number of people in the rubble.

The Kenya Red Cross said a search team managed to pull three children and an adult from the remains of the building in the Huruma area.

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