A 14 story building that collapsed in South C. File
Families of two men believed to be trapped in a collapsed 14, storey building in South C, Nairobi, kept vigil throughout another agonising night as rescue teams worked against time to free them.
The building with fourteen floors and a basement had all its floors stacked on each other, resulting in what has been described as a total pancake, type failure by specialists. While a research team has already been dispatched to carry out a scientific investigation, the cause of the collapse is not known yet.
Ali Adan Galgalo and Assam Bule Huka, both in their thirties, have been identified as the two men thought to be trapped. Security guards, they are reported to have been in the third floor when the building collapsed.
As the two of them, each leaving behind a wife and three children, are in the list of people that would have possibly died in the accident, shock is spreading among the community.
Anxious relatives, friends, and neighbours were on the spot seeing the rescue team digging through the rubble to find the two men and they were not ready to give up on the hope of finding them alive.
The waiting time has been accompanied by the anguish of not knowing what is going on and despair getting bigger.
Marbabit County officials led by the Senator Mohamed Said Chute checkout the place on Saturday and pleaded with the government to expedite rescue