Six people dead near Kenya’s capital after building collapses, police say

NAIROBI: Six people died near Kenya’s capital Nairobi after the top floor of a building under construction collapsed on Friday, a police official said, the latest in a string of construction accidents to hit the country recently.

“So far we have confirmed six bodies, but also five people have been rushed to Imara Daima Hospital,” Duncan Ochieng, the assistant inspector general ⁠of police in ⁠charge of disaster management in Kenya, told media gathered at the scene.

A total of 405 workers were on site when the collapse occurred, and everybody had now been accounted for, Ochieng said. He ⁠said the top floor of the multistory building came down while under construction and that the site had been closed afterwards.