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| Nairobi building collapse: '15 missing' as residents join search | |
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| Fifteen people are reported missing after a seven-storey building collapsed on Monday night in an eastern suburb of the Kenyan capital Nairobi. | |
| The Kenya Red Cross tweeted that response teams were at the scene, in the Kware Pipeline Embakasi area. | |
| The Star newspaper said dozens of people had been evacuated moments before the collapse. | |
| Witnesses told the paper that the building had been condemned after cracks appeared in its walls. | |
| The co-ordinator of the rescue efforts, Pius Masai, said that more than 100 people had been accounted for, but added that some people may still be trapped. | |
| "Rescue efforts are ongoing," he said in a statement, and appealed for people with access to "cutters, drillers and any other extrication equipment" to help with the search. | |
| Building collapses are a problem in Kenya with many people in Nairobi living in low-income areas or slums. Housing is in high demand, and developers often bypass regulations. | |
| In April 2017, 49 people died after a building collapsed in heavy rain in Nairobi. | |
| At the height of Kenya's rainy season in April 2016, a six-storey building collapsed killing 52 people in Nairobi's poor Huruma district. |