{"id":1830287,"date":"2026-03-17T01:50:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-16T22:50:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=1830287"},"modified":"2026-03-17T01:50:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T22:50:07","slug":"kenya-building-demolition-work-goes-wrong-killing-several","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=1830287","title":{"rendered":"Kenya: Building demolition work goes wrong, killing several"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Rescue operations were underway at the site of accident in Kenyan capitalImage: Lucas Mukasa\/Anadolu\/picture alliance<\/small><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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A plan to dismantle a building in the\u00a0Kenyan<\/a>\u00a0capital, Nairobi, went wrong,\u00a0killing at least four people and injuring\u00a0four others, the authorities said.<\/p>\n

According to a statement by the country’s interior ministry, the army and other institutions took part in\u00a0rescue efforts to find people trapped under the rubble, with at least two people being pulled out alive.<\/p>\n

The ministry also said the building had been “earmarked for removal under the ongoing Nairobi River Regeneration Project.”<\/p>\n

It wasn’t immediately clear what led to the incident.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Plan to demolish a building went horribly wrong, killing several peopleImage: Lucas Mukasa\/Anadolu\/picture alliance<\/small><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Building collapses relatively common in Nairobi<\/h2>\n

Housing in Nairobi is in high demand, with construction companies often violating building codes or bypassing regulations, making\u00a0building collapses relatively common in the Kenyan capital.<\/a><\/p>\n

Kenya’s National Construction Authority found that 58%\u00a0of\u00a0buildings in Nairobi were unfit for habitation. The assessment followed\u00a0the collapse of eight buildings in 2015, which killed 15 people.<\/p>\n

Edited by: Roshni Majumdar<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n

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A plan to dismantle a building in the\u00a0Kenyan<\/a>\u00a0capital, Nairobi, went wrong,\u00a0killing at least four people and injuring\u00a0four others, the authorities said.<\/p>\n

According to a statement by the country’s interior ministry, the army and other institutions took part in\u00a0rescue efforts to find people trapped under the rubble, with at least two people being pulled out alive.<\/p>\n

The ministry also said the building had been “earmarked for removal under the ongoing Nairobi River Regeneration Project.”<\/p>\n

It wasn’t immediately clear what led to the incident.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Plan to demolish a building went horribly wrong, killing several peopleImage: Lucas Mukasa\/Anadolu\/picture alliance<\/small><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Building collapses relatively common in Nairobi<\/h2>\n

Housing in Nairobi is in high demand, with construction companies often violating building codes or bypassing regulations, making\u00a0building collapses relatively common in the Kenyan capital.<\/a><\/p>\n

Kenya’s National Construction Authority found that 58%\u00a0of\u00a0buildings in Nairobi were unfit for habitation. The assessment followed\u00a0the collapse of eight buildings in 2015, which killed 15 people.<\/p>\n

Edited by: Roshni Majumdar<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

A plan to dismantle a building in the\u00a0Kenyan<\/a>\u00a0capital, Nairobi, went wrong,\u00a0killing at least four people and injuring\u00a0four others, the authorities said.<\/p>\n

According to a statement by the country’s interior ministry, the army and other institutions took part in\u00a0rescue efforts to find people trapped under the rubble, with at least two people being pulled out alive.<\/p>\n

The ministry also said the building had been “earmarked for removal under the ongoing Nairobi River Regeneration Project.”<\/p>\n

It wasn’t immediately clear what led to the incident.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Housing in Nairobi is in high demand, with construction companies often violating building codes or bypassing regulations, making\u00a0building collapses relatively common in the Kenyan capital.<\/a><\/p>\n

Kenya’s National Construction Authority found that 58%\u00a0of\u00a0buildings in Nairobi were unfit for habitation. The assessment followed\u00a0the collapse of eight buildings in 2015, which killed 15 people.<\/p>\n

Edited by: Roshni Majumdar<\/em><\/p>\n

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[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https:\/\/static.dw.com\/image\/76387801_6.jpg”] https:\/\/p.dw.com\/p\/5AVwD Rescue operations were underway at the site of accident in Kenyan capitalImage: Lucas Mukasa\/Anadolu\/picture alliance A plan to dismantle a building in the\u00a0Kenyan\u00a0capital, Nairobi, went wrong,\u00a0killing at least four people and injuring\u00a0four others, the authorities said. According to a statement by the country’s interior ministry, the army and other institutions took […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[226,74],"class_list":["post-1830287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-crawlmanager","tag-dw-com"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1830287","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1830287"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1830287\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1830287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1830287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1830287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}