‘Only God kept me alive for 36 hours under building’s rubble’ Rongai survivor

An aerial view of the Ongata Rongai collapsed building where 21 year old George Omondi was rescued by disaster management unit and the Kenya Red Cross on Monday afternoon after the building in Ongata Rongai collapsed on Sunday at 2am in the night talks to the press at the Nairobi women’s hospital in Ongata Rongai. PHOTO DAVID GICHURU

NAIROBI: George Omondi went to bed last Saturday night looking forward to a Sunday morning sunshine. Instead, he woke up engulfed in darkness and buried in the rubble of the building he worked as casual labourer frantically gasping for air.

Yet fortune has conspired to give Omondi a rare gift- a second chance to live. When the building under construction collapsed in Ongata Rongai, Nairobi.