At least one person was killed and more were injured after a high-rise building in the neighborhood of Haruma in Nairobi, Kenya, on Sunday.
NTV reported that at least a dozen people were injured. An unknown number people were trapped, reports said.
According to AFP:
An AFP photographer saw two victims being pulled from the rubble alive, while at least 10 others were admitted to a nearby hospital, medical staff said.
Large numbers of residents also swarmed to the site, volunteering to dig in the rubble with their bare hands, although crowds were pushed away by police as heavy lifting machinery and official rescue teams were brought in.
Kenya’s KTN news channel said 20 ambulances had been put on stand-by in the area.
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A victim of a collapsed building arrives at the Kenyatta National hospital in Nairobi, on January 04, 2015. A high-rise building collapsed in the Kenyan capital on January 4, leaving at least a dozen injured and an unknown number of others trapped under rubble, officials and witnesses said. SIMON MAINA/AFP/Getty Images
