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Rescue workers continued searching for survivors on Saturday (Oct 24), a day after a 12-storey building under construction collapsed in Nairobi, using excavators, sniffer dogs and thermal sensors to comb through the debris.

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00:01A multi-story building under construction collapsed in Kenya's capital Nairobi on Friday,
00:08with many feared trapped beneath the rubble amid concerns over unsafe building practices.
00:13Rescue workers continued searching for survivors on Saturday,
00:17using excavators, sniffer dogs and thermal sensors to comb through the debris.
00:22Among those anxiously waiting for news was Vincent Nyantika,
00:26whose brother was inside the building when it collapsed.
00:30Nyantika said they had left home together for work that morning,
00:33but his brother never returned.
00:35I used to buy gas and buy gas.
00:41I used to buy gas.
00:42I used to buy gas.
00:43I used to buy gas.
00:46I used to buy gas.
00:47I used to buy gas.
00:48I used to buy gas.
00:49I used to buy gas.
00:52I used to buy gas.
00:55I used to buy gas.
01:00I used to buy gas.
01:03My health is now between left.
01:13I used to buy gas.
01:16I yogurt between the
01:19As you can see, today we are employing a different approach, we are trying to access
01:23the basement through the front, we are now going through the top and the side.
01:28The machinery has all been provided for and we are happy that we are doing this as a multi-agency.
01:32The county has provided the excavators, we have NYS, we have the county, we have the
01:37KDF, all of us together.
01:39The priority at this time, as we are saying, is the preservation and saving of life.
01:44Those who we have been speaking to yesterday, the communication ceased and of course we
01:49are hoping and assuming that that is because of charge on their batteries.
01:54We have all the equipment, the sniffer dogs, the thermal sensors from our agencies that
02:01we are using and we are deploying.
02:03The Kenya Red Cross said 31 missing person cases had been reported, although officials
02:09were still verifying the figure.
02:11Some workers initially reported missing may have already returned home.
02:16Rescue operations continued in Nairobi's Eastleigh neighborhood as anxious relatives waited
02:21for news of their loved ones.

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