This archive report was first published on 9 December 2019.
On Friday, a six-storey building in Tassia Estate, Nairobi, collapsed, claiming 10 lives as of Sunday evening.
Three more bodies, including two children and a male adult, were retrieved from under the rubble on Sunday evening, according to Embakasi OCPD David Apima.
One person was also rescued alive, bringing the number of survivors to 36.
A rescue team, comprising Kenya Defense Forces, the National Disaster Management Unit, and the Kenya Red Cross, continues to search for the missing persons, with about 10 people still unaccounted for, according to the Kenya Red Cross.
Embakasi Assistant County Commissioner James Wanyoike stated, 'We still don’t know how long this operation will take… We cannot say for sure.'
