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Survivors recall horror after building collapse in Karen, Nairobi

Search and rescue are going on after a building partially collapse in Karen on January 10, 2026 [Boniface Okendo, Standard]

Survivors of a building collapse in Karen, Nairobi, on Saturday evening, have given chilling accounts of the moments when a routine workday turned into tragedy, leaving two of their colleagues dead and seven others injured.

Michael Mwago said he was mixing concrete on the top of the building when everything suddenly went wrong.

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