Road construction works frustrate rescue operations on collpsed Pipline building, several could be stuck in rubble

Rescue operations on the building that collapsed in Embakasi’s Pipeline estate have been delayed for several hours after the eight-storey house came down trapping an unconfirmed number of people.

KTN News reporter Brian Obuya has confirmed that police officers throughout the night helped some of the occupants find their way out of the house but this morning the officers had been at the scene only keeping the residents at bay.

The area OCPD said the poor state of the road under construction had delayed the operation as excavators and other rescue equipment took a long time to get to scene.

The OCPD was keen to note that officers at the scene were keen to coordinate the operations possibly to save lives from the rubble.

Earlier yesterday the building had indications of possible collapse but the occupants were made to believe all was well with their caretaker assuring them that the cracks only needed repair.

According to our reporter, the building is built not far away from the riparian area buffer and has an adjacent one that is occupied though still under construction.

Last year in a similar incident several people died when a residential house collapsed in Huruma.

The officers are yet to release details of numbers of people that could be trapped in the rubble but a number had expressed fears that some of their relatives were stuck.