Building collapse in Nairobi leaves several missing

Rescuers work at the site of the building collapse [Baz Ratner/Reuters]
 
At least five people were missing after a seven-storey building collapsed in a residential area of Kenya's capital, Nairobi, rescue services said on Tuesday, and the city's governor appealed to its owner to come forward and provide architectural plans to help rescuers.

Officials said the building's tenants had been asked to leave on Monday after residents reported cracks in the walls.


"People [were] evacuated but we might have some people who might have been left behind," Pius Masai, deputy director of the National Disaster Management Unit, told the Reuters news agency at the site of Monday night's collapse.

The incident occurred in a very low income neighbourhood near Nairobi's international airport southeast of the capital, Red Cross spokeswoman Noellah Musundi told the AFP news agency.

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