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State regulator at pains to rein in contractors as buildings fall

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KDF officers together with Red Cross workers carry a body retrieved from debris on a 6 story building that collapsed at Kasarani on 15th November 2022. [Wilberforce Okwiri,Standard]

In January 2015, a seven-storeyed building collapsed in Nairobi's Huruma Estate, killing three people and injuring dozens.

The incident took place at 8pm on a Sunday night during a sustained downpour and caught residents completely unprepared. It also came less than three weeks after a four-storeyed building, housing more than 30 families, came down in Makongeni, killing one person and injuring dozens.

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