By Andrew Ross
NAIROBI, Kenya (AA) – Search-and-rescue teams Thursday pulled a woman from the rubble of a building that collapsed in the Kenyan capital six days earlier, an official said.
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.
“An unidentified lady has been found alive in the rubble,” Nairobi governor Evans Kidero said in a statement. “She is still being stabilized and is currently on oxygen.”
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.
