By ERIC WAINAINA
Two people died and four others were injured on Sunday morning when another building collapsed in Kiambu town.
And for the second time, the efficiency and preparedness of the area council in handling disasters was put to the test, with the Municipal Council of Kiambu lacking equipment. Excavators to dig into the rubble for rescue and recovery operation were deployed from a Chinese company.
Maina Irungu, 17, died after the five storey building under construction collapsed over their iron-sheet house at about 2 am.
The identity of the second person has not yet been established.
Maina sat for his Kenya Certificate of Primary Education KCPE last year and he was due to join Form One.
Among the survivors were Maina’s Brother Peter Irungu, Denis Wateba and Obadiah Ndungu and two of them have been treated and discharged.
The injured were dashed to the Kiambu District Hospital with multiple fractures for treatment but staff at the hospital kept journalists away.
The military, General Service Unit, the Nairobi Fire Brigade and volunteers from the Red Cross mounted a massive rescue operation at the site as it emerged that more people could have been trapped in the rubble.
The tragedy occurred about 100 metres away from where another building, also under construction, collapsed killing 17 people and injuring several others on October 19 last year.
Last week, the owner of the building that collapsed on Sunday, Mr Francis Njoroge and his wife Mrs Felista Nyokabi, were charged before a Kiambu court for allowing the construction of an unsafe building and ordered to demolish it within 30 days. They were also fined Sh50,000 each.
The building's construction had earlier been stopped after complains were made that it had already tilted was likely to collapse.
According to Mr Romano Kinyua, the District Public Health Officer, the building had been constructed with poor and inappropriate materials
On Saturday afternoon, the owner of the building was spotted on demolishing it from the top floor, a day after the order was made.
The victims of the Sunday tragedy are people who live in houses near the building.
Two people in Kenya died earlier today after a five-storeyed building under construction in the town of Kiambu collapsed. Four others were said to have been injured.

The incident occurred in the middle of the night, at 02:30 local time (23:30 UTC), on Sunday morning. The building was only a few metres from another building that collapsed in October of last year, killing thirty people.

The building is reported to have been condemned last year, when the authorities deemed it substandard. Preparations to demolish the building started yesterday, in accordance with a court order that required the building to be destroyed within thirty days.

One of the casualties from the accident was Maina Irungu, aged seventeen; the other hasn't been identified. People wounded by the collapse were taken to the Kiambu District Hospital. The victims were all people who lived in houses near the collapsed building. Rescue operations are still ongoing, being conducted by the Red Cross, police, and military. Officials also ordered evacuation of two buildings in the vicinity when cracks were spotted on them, according to Capital FM Kenya.

This story in itself is reflective of a major infrastructure problem in Kenya, according to the ''BBC'', China says it will give a US$7 million (£4.4m, €4.9m) grant to help fund infrastructure development projects in Kenya.