Children buried alive in cyber cafe in Tassia among 26 people feared dead

Medical officers attend to a child rescued from a building that collapsed in Tassia, Embakasi East in Nairobi on Friday. [Jonah Onyango, Standard]

It was a race against time. All hopes were on the drilling sounds by the Kenya Defence Forces under their Disaster Response Unit and a team of engineers. They had been working for more than 36 hours and were yet to reach the bottom of the building where majority of victims are believed to be trapped.

By yesterday evening, five people had been confirmed dead and 26 were still believed to be trapped inside the building that collapsed in Tassia on Friday morning. Among the missing are a group of children who had gone to play video games at a cyber café within the building.