Joy as four more people are pulled out of the collapsed Huruma building alive

Rescue workers carry away one of the four survivors who were removed from the debris of the collapsed storey building in Huruma, Nairobi, yesterday. [photo: BONIFACE OKENDO/stand

"Please, do not pierce my eyes," those were the startling words which momentarily halted rescue operations yesterday, on the sixth day since the collapse of a block of flats in Huruma, Nairobi.

It turned out that the feeble plea from beneath the rubble was from an eght-month pregnant mother of one who stunned rescue workers who have been sifting through the debris in desperate search of life.