Rescuers searching for survivors from a building that collapsed on Monday night at Kware area in Embakasi, Nairobi, on June 13, 2017. [PHOTO/nation.co.ke]
Police have said that some residents of the building that collapsed in Kware area of Embakassi in Nairobi resisted evacuation.
This came after several of the residents, including children, got trapped when the building collapsed.
The building collapsed several hours after police conducted a forced evacuation but there were still casualties registered, with three dying in the process.
“We are currently trying to get to those who are trapped. Operations are going on smoothly as planned by the inter-agency management team,” said National Disaster Management Unit Deputy Director and Communication Officer Pius Masai on Tuesday.
“At the scene, I saw my four other children who told me that the two were eating in the house. Police declined to let me go for them,” said a resident on Tuesday.