Rescuers freed a woman and three other survivors from under the rubble of a collapsed building in Nairobi on Thursday, six days after the building collapsed.
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Maasai further said one of the people rescued alive Thursday, died in an ambulance due to lack of oxygen, while being rushed to hospital.
On Tuesday, rescuers extricated a baby from the rubble of the building, which collapsed after days of rain in the Kenyan capital.
“Super news! Three more people have been rescued alive from the Huruma building collapse”.
Later Thursday, three more people – two women and a man – were rescued from the rubble, according to Nairobi’s police chief Japheth Koome.
President Uhuru Kenyatta ordered an audit of every building in the country previous year after eight structures collapsed, killing at least 15 people.
A woman was the first to be found, surviving in a cavity of broken masonry of the building that crumbled last Friday night.
“We have tried to destroy such buildings in this area [in the past] but the owners always go to court and the process is either delayed or barred; [but] this time round, we will destroy all of the marked buildings come next week, we will no longer lose lives”, Mwangi said. A woman was rescued, six days after the residential building collapsed.
“Sometimes the government does things without considering the people and we are not the ones who have done wrong we are just tenants”, she said.
“The debris is too weak and we are trying our best to ensure that no one is injured during the rescue operations”, Masai added.
Occupants of the condemned buildings have already been evacuated from the 5 houses earmarked for demolition Friday.
The Nairobi County governor last week confirmed that most city dwellers were living in unapproved buildings. Housing is in high demand, and unscrupulous developers often bypass regulations to maximize their profits.
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Earlier this week rescuers had said there was little chance of finding more survivors. Several other buildings in Nairobi have collapsed in recent years, with fewer deaths.
