Several People Injured After Two Storey Building Under Construction Collapses in Kisumu

The seven have been taken to the hospital as rescue workers, residents, and the police are at the scene.

A woman who served food to the construction workers is among those trapped inside. Joseph Okeyo, a worker who survived the ordeal, said that the incident happened in a flash.

"We did not anticipate what happened. We just heard a cracking sound and then the building collapsed," he said.

Okeyo also said, "We were having lunch on site and I had just left her serving my colleagues before the incident happened.”

By 2 pm an excavator was yet to arrive at the scene as firefighters and other rescue workers struggled to cut through the rubble.

Moments after the buildings collapsed, residents pulled a mother and a child who was crying inside the building.

A few meters from where the building collapsed, several construction workers who escaped death by a whisker were still in shock.

They were working on one side of the building that was left with large cracks following the collapse. The incident comes as surveyors have raised an alarm over substandard houses being constructed in the city.

Meanwhile, a dangerously leaning five-storey residential building in Kinoo, Kiambu County, was on September 6 brought down following orders from the county government and the National Construction Authority (NCA).