Woman trapped for 6 days found alive
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A WOMAN was rescued yesterday after being trapped for six days in the rubble of a collapsed building in Nairobi, Kenya’s capital city.
A crowd broke into applause as she was carried away on a stretcher covered by a blanket and with an oxygen tank by her side to an ambulance. The rescue was broadcast live on television.
Before military engineers managed to break through the slabs of concrete that had trapped her, medics had managed to give the woman oxygen and intravenously administer water and glucose, Kenya’s Disaster Management Unit said.
The woman was given oxygen while trapped in a small corner of her room, said Abbas Gullet, head of the Kenya Red Cross.
On Tuesday, a nearly 6-month-old baby was rescued, a development which raised hopes that more survivors would be found. The infant was found unharmed in a washbasin four days after the building collapsed on Friday.
The death toll from the disaster has risen to 36 and 70 people remain missing, Gullet said.
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