Death toll from Kenyan building collapse reaches 42


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  • Friday, 06 May 2016

Kenya Red Cross rescuers evacuate a woman from the rubble of a six-storey building that collapsed last Friday after days of heavy rain, in Nairobi, Kenya May 5, 2016. REUTERS/Thomas Mukoya

NAIROBI (Reuters) - The death toll from the collapse of a building in the Kenyan capital a week ago has reached 42, police said on Friday.

Rescue workers have been pulling bodies from heaps of shattered and twisted concrete at the site in Nairobi's Huruma district since the multi-storey residential structure came down during torrential rain.

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