Two Dead After Kenya Building Collapse
The mother of two children rescued from a collapsed seven-storey building in Nairobi has died in hospital, officials said Wednesday, amid fears more people are still trapped under the rubble.
The woman’s daughter and son are in stable condition after being pulled from the debris in a poor neighbourhood near Nairobi’s international airport, southeast of the Kenyan capital.
“Unfortunately, one female adult, believed to be the mother of the rescued children, succumbed to the injuries while undergoing treatment at the hospital,” said Pius Masai, National Disaster Management Unit spokesman, who is coordinating the search and rescue mission after Monday night’s tragedy.
It means the death toll has risen to two, after a boy’s dead body was found in the rubble on Tuesday night.
The incident has renewed criticisms over unregulated construction in the city of more than three million people.