HOPE AS WOMAN IS FOUND ALIVE IN HURUMA RUBBLE SIX DAYS ON.

A woman has been found alive inside the rubble of the Huruma building that collapsed six days ago.

Doctors are working round to stabilize her as the Kenya Defence Forces creates access routes to where she was.

Minutes later, National Disaster Management Unit Incident Commander Pius Masai said the female adult was accessed without any injuries and is talking.

He, however, added that the woman is weak and is being attended to by doctors who have entered the rubble. “We have administered oxygen,” said Masai.

Rescuers have stopped using bulldozers after the woman screamed and asked them to be careful as there is something next to her that can pierce her eyes.

Masai says the woman is in a place where she cannot move; rescuers are looking for alternative routes to get the her out as she is in a squeezed space.

Mr Maasai says police have been ordered to clear traffic to Kenyatta National Hospital as the woman will be taken there.

The woman’s rescue increases the number of those who have been rescued to 137 with 80 people are still unaccounted for. The woman was discovered at 11.47am.

The building collapsed following heavy downpour in Nairobi last Friday. The death toll stands at 33 as of Thursday, 6am.

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