Building collapse kills 11 and injures more than 70

A FIVE-STOREY building collapsed yesterday in central Nairobi with more than 280 construction workers inside, killing at least 11 people and injuring more than 70, witnesses and officials said.

Rescuers dug into the rubble with their bare hands while the injured were loaded into any available car to be taken to hospitals. The hand of one trapped person could be seen waving for help from under a concrete beam.

Tens of thousands of people ran to the site, clogging roads and climbing atop the debris to watch the rescue. Riot police used truncheons to beat back the crowds and to clear roads for emergency vehicles