Rescue workers in Kenya are trying to reach members of a family believed to be trapped after a six-storey building under construction fell on to their home at dawn on Thursday.

The building came down in the Ruaka area of Kiambu county, which neighbours the capital, Nairobi, according to St John Ambulance Kenya.

RUAKA COLLAPSED BUILDING UPDATE.

6 storey building under construction collapsed at around 5am.

A neighboring private home affected with a family who were sleeping at the time it collapsed believed to be trapped. Rescue team trying carefully to reach the family members alive. pic.twitter.com/hygKJdUcYS

— St John Ambulance Kenya (@StJohnKenya) November 17, 2022

The family was sleeping in their house when the neighbouring building collapsed, it added.

Source: BBC