A woman has been rescued from the ruins of a residential building in Kenya’s capital, Nairobi, six days after it collapsed in heavy rains.
Kenya Red Cross says she is being taken to a nearby hospital for treatment.
The building’s presumed owners have been released on bail after being arrested on Monday.
Rescuers worked to get the survivor free after she was found on Thursday morning.
Bystanders who had been watching the rescue in Nairobi’s Huruma neighbourhood applauded as she was carried away on a stretcher, reports the BBC.
While she was trapped, she had been talking to the rescuers and was “in good spirits” according to the head of Kenya’s National Disaster Management Unit, Pius Masai, quoted by the AP news agency.
A six-month-old child was pulled alive from the rubble on Tuesday, but her mother was found dead the following day.
City authorities say they had earmarked the building for demolition after it was declared unfit for human habitation.
An official audit of the country’s buildings found that more than half in the capital are not suitable for people to live in.
