Seven individuals dead after Huruma house breakdown

NAIROBI, Kenya Apr 30 – Seven people were killed when a six storey building collapsed in Huruma estate, Nairobi on Friday night, police verbalized. “It is very lamentable that we have lost seven people after the house collapsed
last night,” Nairobi police chief Japheth Koome told us on telephone on Saturday morning, “we have 121 others who have been rescued and taken to hospital.” Volunteers—including the Kenya Red Cross and the police and the National Youth Service—were still undertaking rescue operations on Saturday morning when four people were pulled out alive, with varied injuries.

According to the Kenya Red Cross, a total of 150 households were affected. Nairobi deputy Governor Jonathan Mueke who visited the scene on Saturday morning verbally expressed an investigation will be launched to establish if the building was felicitously approved for construction, as they seek the cause of the tragedy. “The building went down during the cumbersomely hefty rains but we still want to establish if all the procedures were followed when it was constructed,” he verbally expressed. The building is about two years old. Adjacent houses were being evacuated on Saturday morning following fears they may additionally collapse. Developing story….