אסונות · Eastleigh collapseNairobi building collapse: Four rescued as missing-person counts remain unresolvedנכתב 26 באוקטובר 2026 בשעה 02:57 UTCצפייהתמליל0:07Rescuers have pulled four people alive from a collapsed high, rise in Nairobi.0:11Shops were operating beneath the unfinished building, and families still don't have0:15a settled count of who's missing.0:17The unresolved task is accounting for everyone who was in those shops.0:20Police put the rescue total at four by Sunday, the third day of the response.0:25That updates Saturday's account of one survivor and a later account of two.0:28The four includes earlier rescues.0:30The building came down at the nine street site in Eastley, a densely populated0:34business and residential area.0:36The site is also described along Yusuf Haji Avenue, near day-to-day supermarket.0:40Those descriptions refer to the same emergency.0:43The floors pancaked into a mound of concrete and steel along a busy commercial0:47street.0:47Crews worked toward the lower floors and basement.0:49Residents described calls for help from loved ones beneath the debris, followed by0:53phones becoming unreachable.0:55Heavy equipment was scarce at first.0:57One excavator later arrived and began shifting rubble.1:00Responders subsequently stopped using diggers over concerns that excavation could1:03restrict air reaching people below.1:05One account described trapped people saying the machinery was affecting their air1:09supply.1:13Teams also used sniffer dogs and thermal sensors.1:15The response brought together the Kenya Red Cross, Kenya Defense Forces, Nairobi1:20County Emergency Teams, and National Youth Service.1:22Police fired tear gas at people looting neighboring shops, adding another1:25complication as emergency teams tried to clear access.1:29The Red Cross missing, person figures range from thirty, one reports to twenty one.1:33Both figures describe reports still being checked.1:36They don't tell rescuers how many people are beneath the concrete, and the1:39difference between those registers hasn't been explained.1:41Interior Cabinet Secretary Kipchumba Mercoman had said seven people were reported1:45missing on Friday.1:46That figure kept circulating through Saturday.1:48Authorities said rescuers had contacted some people beneath the rubble, with concern1:52focused on people associated with eleven occupied ground, floor, and basement shops.1:57The Red Cross separately said twenty-six previously missing people had been traced.2:01Their names haven't been matched publicly to the other registers.2:04Some workers may have left before the collapse.2:06These figures can't be added or subtracted into a current missing total.2:09Mercoman said all sixty, seven construction workers were accounted for.2:14He said sixty, six escaped unharmed, and one was hospitalized in stable condition,2:18with injuries that weren't life threatening.2:20His accounting covered the workforce, leaving shopkeepers, customers, and passers-by2:25to be accounted for separately.2:26A shorter description that only sixty, six workers were accounted for conflicts with2:30that fuller breakdown.2:31Merkelman's tally included the injured worker, and tracing someone can mean finding2:35them safely elsewhere.2:37So the twenty-six traced people can't be counted as rebel rescues.2:40The Red Cross initially said two injured people were taken to Kenyatta National2:44Hospital.2:44A man rescued on Saturday, more than twenty, four hours after the collapse also went2:48to hospital.2:49The patients haven't been publicly matched across those accounts.2:52Earlier rescue descriptions included a woman, a man, and a pair of survivors.2:56Their identities and rescue times haven't been reconciled, so adding those3:00descriptions would risk counting someone twice.3:02The police total of four is the latest cumulative figure.3:05The building's height has been described as twelve stories, eighteen stories, or3:09possibly sixteen or eighteen.3:10Police described more than ten stories under construction.3:13Authorities haven't settled the actual floor count.3:16The collapse happened on Friday afternoon, October twenty-three, two thousand and3:19twenty-six.3:20The Red Cross time carried in early accounts was about one forty.3:24Other accounts placed it around one.3:26The precise time remains approximate.3:28Governor Johnson Sakai said the county approved a change of use for the property,3:32but he said the application for a fifteen-story building plus basement hadn't been3:36approved.3:36He also said the owners lacked the required occupation paperwork.3:40Sakaja later said required approvals were missing and dismissed a purported approval3:43document as fake.3:45Permission to change a property's use, approval of construction plans, and3:48permission to occupy cover different things.3:50Shops were operating on both the ground floor and in the basement, while upper3:54floors remained unfinished.3:55The National Construction Authority named Nine Street Plaza as developer and Stromax3:59Holdings as contractor.4:00It identified Emmanuel Mwanghi Mina as architect and Joseph Muturi Mugu as4:05structural engineer.4:06The authority assigned their project roles without assigning responsibility for the4:09collapse.4:10The authorities said the project was registered in July2025 .4:13Acting Executive Director Susan Ruddo signed the statement.4:16Project registration alone doesn't show that county construction and occupancy4:20requirements were met.4:21Investigators still have to determine what physically caused the building to fail.4:25Police commander Issa Mohamed said the owner and anyone who authorized construction4:29could face charges if investigators found criminal negligence.4:32Government spokesperson Charles Oweno separately said the registered owner and4:35another party were already in custody and charged.4:37Police haven't clarified who was in custody after the collapse or which charges had4:41been filed.4:42Separately, Sakaija challenged the handling of fourteen suspects linked to the4:45building.4:46He said they were arrested in June, then released on fifty-zero Kenyan shillings4:50bail without charges.4:51Sakaija's complaint doesn't settle the legal position after this collapse.4:55The year of those June arrests and their connection to the current investigation4:58remain unclear.4:59Nobody has been shown to bear criminal responsibility for the building's failure.5:03Kenya recorded eighty-six building collapses between two thousand and nine and two5:07thousand and nineteen, with an estimated two hundred deaths.5:10Those historical national figures show the longer safety problem.5:13They don't explain what brought down this building or describe casualties in5:16Eastleigh.5:17The minister's accounting covers the construction workforce.5:20People who were in the shops and surrounding street still have no reconciled public5:24accounting.5:25Authorities haven't confirmed a death toll.5:27Search teams were still working on Sunday.קריאת הכתבהציר הזמן של הסיפורHeyDexהסרטון הקצר ↗מי דיווח על מהנקודות שדיווח עליהן יותר מכלי תקשורת אחד✓Building collapse in Nairobi's Eastleigh areaאושר באופן עצמאי · 16 כלי תקשורתCounty approval for property use and proposed building8 כלי תקשורת✓People feared trapped beneath the rubbleאושר באופן עצמאי · 7 כלי תקשורתBuilding had more than ten upper floors under construction7 כלי תקשורת✓Seven people reported missingאושר באופן עצמאי · 5 כלי תקשורתConstruction workers accounted for or escaped unharmed5 כלי תקשורת✓Search and rescue operations underwayאושר באופן עצמאי · 4 כלי תקשורתOnly the ground floor was occupied4 כלי תקשורתOne person rescued from the rubble3 כלי תקשורתKenya Red Cross response teams sent3 כלי תקשורתRescue teams searched the rubble Saturday3 כלי תקשורתUse of diggers paused over air-supply concerns3 כלי תקשורת✓Police fired tear gas at lootersאושר באופן עצמאי · 3 כלי תקשורתProject developer named3 כלי תקשורתOthers remained missing after the rescueשני כלי תקשורתBuilding reportedly occupiedשני כלי תקשורתMachinery deployed to move rubbleשני כלי תקשורתכל שורה היא הטענה כפי שתיעדנו אותה מהדיווח של אותו כלי תקשורת. הושווה נכון ל-25 באוקטובר 2026 בשעה 23:08 UTC.
