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Building collapses in Nairobi, 15 missing

About 15 people are missing after a seven-storey building collapsed in a residential area of the Kenyan capital Nairobi, rescue services said on Tuesday, and authorities said they had asked its occupants to leave before it came down.

Reuters photographers on the scene -- in the eastern Nairobi suburb known as Pipeline -- saw a pile of broken concrete blocks and bent metal. An excavator was moving rubble.

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