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Officers from 1st Canine Regiment use sniffer dogs to comb through the debris of the collapsed building in South C, Nairobi, on January 3, 2026. [Benard Orwongo, Standard]
More than 40 hours after a high-rise building collapsed in Nairobi’s South C estate, trapping four people, rescue teams had yet to retrieve a single body, raising questions about the country’s disaster preparedness and response capacity.
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