Excavators and sniffer dogs were also brought in to clear debris and help locate people trapped inside the building, as rescue teams from the National Disaster Management Unit and Nairobi City County continued working at the site.

The rescue operation at a building that collapsed along 9th Street in Eastleigh, Nairobi, continued into the night on Friday, with several people still feared trapped beneath the rubble as emergency teams worked to locate survivors.

Personnel from the Kenya Defence Forces (KDF), General Service Unit (GSU), regular police, the Anti-Terrorism Police Unit, the Bomb Disposal Unit, the National Youth Service, Kenya Red Cross and other emergency response teams were deployed to the scene to assist in the operation.