- Six people have died and five others rescued after an eight-storey building collapsed along Mombasa Road.
- Emergency teams are continuing searches for workers who may still be trapped beneath the rubble.
- The tragedy comes weeks after another deadly building collapse in Nairobi’s Eastleigh area.
Six people have died and five others have been rescued alive after an eight-storey building under construction collapsed along Mombasa Road near the Nairobi Standard Gauge Railway (SGR) Terminus on Friday.
According to situation reports from Nairobi City County emergency response teams, the structure, near the SGR Syokimau access road, caved in at about 9:52am while construction workers were on site. Preliminary assessments indicate that the top slab gave way and triggered a partial collapse. Several workers were trapped beneath the rubble.
“Five (5) casualties have been pulled from the rubble alive and are receiving emergency medical care,” Nairobi County stated in its first situation report on the incident.
Emergency responders launched a coordinated rescue operation. They included the Nairobi City County Fire Brigade, the Urban Search and Rescue (USAR) team and the Kenya Red Cross. Three bodies were retrieved during the initial sweep, and three more, all of middle-aged men, were recovered from the debris later. Five survivors pulled from the wreckage were rushed to nearby hospitals for emergency treatment.
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Meanwhile, authorities are still trying to establish how many workers were at the site when the building came down. Search teams continue to comb through the rubble for anyone who may remain trapped. Nairobi City County officials have urged motorists and other members of the public to avoid Mombasa Road near the SGR Terminus so that emergency crews can work without obstruction.
Friday’s tragedy comes less than a month after another fatal collapse in Nairobi’s Eastleigh area. On the afternoon of October 23, 2026, the upper floors of a 18-storey building under construction caved in, crushing occupied shops on the ground floor and in the basement.
Such repeated structural failures in the capital continue to draw scrutiny from safety regulators and researchers. They often blame substandard building materials, faulty structural designs and inadequate site supervision.
By our reporter
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