By Andrew Ross
NAIROBI, Kenya (AA) – Search-and-rescue teams Thursday pulled an expectant woman and two others ( one male and one female) from the rubble of a building that collapsed in the Kenyan capital six days earlier, Nairobi Governor Evans Kidero and the Red Cross confirmed. The three were pulled out of the remains of a six-story building that fell last Friday. Rescue teams confirmed that the woman lost her baby.
“Three more people (two women and a man) have been rescued this evening,” Nairobi governor Evans Kidero said in a statement.
Earlier on Thursday, search-and-rescue teams had pulled a woman from the rubble. The weak and emaciated woman, who has not yet been identified, was rescued from the wreckage of a six-storey apartment block that fell last Friday, unfortunately The death toll from the disaster in Huruma, a residential area in northeast Nairobi, has reached 35, making it one of the worst building collapses in Kenyan history. On Tuesday, an 18-month-old girl was rescued from the rubble. Apart from dehydration, she suffered no physical injury. The government, which blamed the collapse on developers ignoring safety standards, has responded by marking 70 buildings in the area for urgent demolition.
