Kenyan building collapses spark alarm as cities swell

Engineers supervise the clearing of the ruins of an apartment block that collapsed after 200 tenants were evacuated in Ruiru, in the outskirts of Nairobi, Kenya November 21, 2022. REUTERS/Monicah Mwangi

RUAKA, Kenya (Reuters) - Daniel Njoroge Karomo awoke to a huge bang and a cloud of dust.

Rushing outside he found his parents' corrugated metal home crushed underneath a five-floor apartment block that had collapsed in the Kenyan town of Ruaka while they were sleeping.