Rescuers free four people trapped under rubble for six days

Rescue workers on Thursday freed four people who had survived under the rubble of a building in Kenya’s capital for six days after it collapsed, the Kenya Red Cross said. A woman was the first to be found, surviving in a cavity of broken masonry of the building that crumbled last Friday night. Doctors had […]

Rescue workers on Thursday freed four people who had survived under the rubble of a building in Kenya’s capital for six days after it collapsed, the Kenya Red Cross said.
A woman was the first to be found, surviving in a cavity of broken masonry of the building that crumbled last Friday night. Doctors had given her oxygen and fed her by intravenous drip until workers using their hands and power tools to free her.
Later in the day, the Kenya Red Cross said three more people had been recovered alive from the debris in the poor Huruma district of Nairobi, where the building collapsed after days of heavy rain. The death toll from the disaster has reached 36, the leader of the operation Pius Masai told reporters. About 140 people have now been rescued, based on the four freed on Thursday.