Kenya Building Collapse: Woman Rescued After Six Days
Rescuers freed a woman and three other survivors from the rubble of a collapsed building.
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Rescuers freed a woman and three other survivors from under the rubble of a collapsed building in Nairobi on Thursday, six days after the building collapsed.
Soldiers, firefighters and volunteers have been working around the clock since the 29 April collapse of the seven-storey building in a desperate search effort, and their spirits were lifted on Tuesday when a nearly six-month-old girl, dehydrated but relatively unscathed, was found alive in a wash basin.
On Thursday, the rescuers found 24-year-old Elizabeth Night Odhiambo, who was eight months pregnant, said her husband, Stephen Onyango.
Odhiambo was taken to Kenyatta National Hospital, where she underwent an emergency cesarean section, but doctors told Onyango the baby had not survived.
The head of the Disaster Management Unit, said that of the other three people rescued after Odhiambo, one died because the ambulance did not have advanced life-saving equipment.
The disaster has killed 37 people and injured 134.
About 70 people remain missing, said Kenya Red Cross head Abbas Gullet, and rescuers were working around the clock to find survivors.
(Inputs from AP)