Building Under Construction Collapses Near Kenya's Capital: Six Dead, Five Injured, All 405 Workers Accounted For
Six people died on November 13 when the top floor of a multistorey building under construction collapsed in the Syokimau area southeast of Nairobi, Kenya's capital, Reuters reported. Duncan Ochieng, the assistant inspector general of police in charge of disaster management, told media at the scene that six bodies had been confirmed and five people had been rushed to Imara Daima Hospital.
Ochieng said a total of 405 workers were on site when the collapse occurred and that everybody had now been accounted for; the site was closed afterwards. The Kenya Red Cross placed the collapse in Syokimau, southeast of Nairobi. Kenyan media reported that the building had eight storeys and that its top floor gave way during construction work; the exact cause has not been established.
The collapse is the latest in a string of construction accidents in Kenya. On October 23, a 12-storey structure collapsed in Nairobi, killing eight people. As of October there had been 24 building collapses in Kenya in 2026, more than in any other year this decade, according to Stats Kenya. The state-run Kenya Institute for Public Policy Research and Analysis says such collapses are mainly the result of poor workmanship, substandard materials, weak supervision and faulty structural designs.
(Source: Reuters)
Source: Reuters
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