Another disaster in Kiambu BY LABAN WANAMBISI
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KIAMBU, Kenya, Jan 10 - Three people died early on Sunday after yet another building collapsed in Kiambu town.
Four others were injured and taken to hospital after the three-storey building which was under construction tumbled at around 2am following a heavy downpour.
The building had been condemned for destruction after structural faults were detected.
One person died immediately following the collapse, but rescuers from the military, the General Service Unit (GSU) and Red Cross retrieved two more bodies on Sunday morning.
The rescue workers spent the better part of the morning trying to clear the debris and reach down to the two who were still trapped.
But shortly after 12, they retrieved one body and located a second one.
Kiambu divisional Police chief Samwel Mukindia told Capital News that the three casualties were residents of an adjacent building.
Meanwhile, police have ordered evacuation from two other nearby buildings after they spotted cracks on them.
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.