Two tragedies in three days. On Thursday (Nov. 17), a multi-story building under construction on the outskirts of Kenya’s capital fell on a nearby house, killing at least two people, according to authorities.
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Unsafe buildings have been warned about by construction authorities. The parents of Fredrick Kamau died young.
“When the house began to collapse and finally fell on Mum and Dad, they were still inside. When the ambulance arrived to save them, they discovered that they had already passed away and that the building had not yet been finished.”
Three other people have been rescued alive from the family home that was next to the collapsed building located in the Ruaka suburb.
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“This is not the first story or rather instance. In the course of this one week we have had two buildings that have collapsed. We have lost innocent lives”, resident Willy Kamau lamented.
Last month we had a woman and her children that were buried; innocent they were also same case. They were not in the building, but a building near their house collapsed and the mother and the children just died like that. So we are asking this is the work of the county government it is not even the national government. The approvals, the drawings and everything is the work of the county government.”
After building collapses in Kenya in 2015, the presidency ordered an audit to see if the country’s buildings were up to code. The National Construction Authority found that 58% of the buildings in Nairobi were unfit for habitation.
