Highrise building collapses in city search on for mother, child

Rescuers at a collapsed building in Kahawa West, Nairobi, on October 20, 2024. [Mike Kihaki, Standard]

Authorities are searching for a missing woman and her child following the collapse of a condemned highrise building in Kahawa West, Nairobi, Sunday.

The collapse re-ignited debate about construction standards and approval processes since the doomed building had been occupied for less than a month before the disaster.
By last evening, search and rescue efforts were going on with fears that a mother and her child could be trapped in the rubble.