Three children and one adult were taken to the city's Kenyatta National Hospital, Kenya Red Cross said on its Twitter feed.
Rescue
workers search for residents feared trapped in the rubble of a
six-storey building that collapsed after days of heavy rain, in Nairobi,
Kenya April 30, 2016.
A six-storey building collapsed
in Kenya's capital late on Friday, killing at least three people, KTN
television reported, and trapping many others after days of heavy rains
and floods.
Live footage showed rescuers bringing
out two survivors through packed crowds of emergency crews and
onlookers in the Huruma residential area in northeast Nairobi.
Three children and one adult were taken to the city's Kenyatta National Hospital, Kenya Red Cross said on its Twitter feed.
People
from about 150 households were taking shelter in a nearby village, the
aid group said, amid what it called "chaotic scenes".
The
Daily Nation newspaper reported that scores more were feared trapped.
Authorities did not immediately release details on casualties.
Privately
owned KTN, running live footage from the scene, said a baby had been
rescued alive but "most residents" of the building were trapped inside.
It was not clear how many were there when it collapsed.
The
pictures showed a large crowd surrounding the collapsed building as
police and rescue workers tried to remove debris, passing chunks of
masonry to one another by hand.
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