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Another five-storey residential building collapsed on Monday in Ruiru on the outskirts of Kenya's capital, Nairobi, hours after its over 100 tenants were evacuated.
Kimani Wamatangi, the local governor, watched the evacuation on Sunday afternoon after the building developed fractures.
According to local media sources, the National Construction Authority previously determined it to be structurally unsound.
“Tenants can no longer stay in this house because its columns- which are supposed to support it have cracked.
"It cannot stand for long. If not for the neighbouring house that is supporting it, it could already be down,” Wamatangi said while leading the rescue operations on Sunday, Local television station Citizen TV quoted.
This is the second building to collapse in Kiambu within one week.
On November 17, another five-storey building collapsed in Ruaka, Kiambu County.
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