{"id":368562,"date":"2026-10-23T09:06:18","date_gmt":"2026-10-23T14:06:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/many-feared-trapped-as-a-tall-building-collapses-in-kenya"},"modified":"2026-10-23T09:06:20","modified_gmt":"2026-10-23T14:06:20","slug":"many-feared-trapped-as-a-tall-building-collapses-in-kenya","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/many-feared-trapped-as-a-tall-building-collapses-in-kenya","title":{"rendered":"Many feared trapped as a tall constructing collapses in Kenya"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"prism-article-body\">\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \"><span class=\"oyrPY qlwaB AGxeB \">NAIROBI, Kenya &#8212; <\/span>A tall building collapsed on Friday in a busy commercial area of Kenya\u2019s capital, with many people feared trapped beneath the rubble.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The building was under construction when it collapsed along a busy commercial street in Nairobi&#8217;s Eastleigh area, which is often crowded with thousands of traders and residents.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Nairobi police chief Issa Mohamud said the building had more than 10 floors under construction. Rescue operations were complicated, with police firing tear gas at people who had begun looting neighboring shops, as officers sought to clear the area and provide access to emergency response teams.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The Kenya Red Cross said its teams were on their way and urged people at the site to give responders space to work safely.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \">Building collapses are a recurring problem in Nairobi. County officials responsible for issuing building permits have been accused of failing to conduct adequate inspections to ensure developers comply with safety guidelines and construction standards.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.com\/International\/wireStory\/feared-trapped-tall-building-collapses-kenya-137507771\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NAIROBI, Kenya &#8212; A tall building collapsed on Friday in a busy commercial area of Kenya\u2019s capital, with many people feared trapped beneath the rubble. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":364284,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[261,92,42819,11064,42818,42817,390],"class_list":["post-368562","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-chief","tag-disaster-accident","tag-issa-mohamud","tag-kenya","tag-nairobi","tag-nairobi-police","tag-war-conflict"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368562","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=368562"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368562\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":368564,"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368562\/revisions\/368564"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/364284"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=368562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=368562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=368562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}