Kenyan rescuers race to free woman from building rubble


  • World
  • Thursday, 05 May 2016

Rescue workers use a bulldozer as they continue to search for survivors in Huruma neighbourhood in the rubble of a six-storey building that collapsed in Nairobi, Kenya, May 5, 2016. REUTERS/Thomas Mukoya

NAIROBI (Reuters) - Rescue workers pulled out a woman alive from under the rubble of a residential building in Kenya's capital on Thursday, six days after it collapsed, a Reuters witnesses said.

The woman was carried to an ambulance to the cheers of the crowd in Nairobi's Huruma district. At least 36 people were killed when the building crumbled on Friday night following days of heavy rain.

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