Six people dead near Kenya's capital after building collapses

Source: Reuters.

The structure fell around 9:52am.

The accident happened weeks after another building, a 12-storey structure, also collapsed in Nairobi on Friday, 23 October 2026, killing eight people.

The Kenya Red Cross said in a post on X that at least three people had been rescued and taken to hospital.

Building collapses in Kenya are frequent, and mainly caused by poor workmanship, substandard materials, weak supervision and faulty structural designs, among other factors, according to the state-run Kenya Institute for Public Policy Research and Analysis.