肯尼亚内罗毕在建高楼坍塌：两名幸存者先后从废墟获救送医，警方追查楼主与承包商
肯尼亚首都内罗毕 Eastleigh 区一栋在建高楼10月23日下午坍塌。10月24日周六，救援人员先后从废墟中救出两名幸存者，两人均被送往 Kenyatta National Hospital 救治，现场搜救仍在继续。
坍塌发生在 9th Street 上一栋在建楼房，当地媒体报道该楼约有18层。肯尼亚内政部长 Kipchumba Murkomen 表示，事发时现场的67名建筑工人已全部确认下落，其中66人安然脱险，1人送医、情况稳定。但这栋楼的底层与地下层有约11家商铺在营业，最初有7人被报告失联。据 Capital FM 报道，救援人员此前曾与被困在废墟下的人员取得联系。
肯尼亚红十字会周六表示，其搜救队与多机构伙伴经过数小时作业，先从废墟中救出一名被困男子并送往医院，随后又救出一名女子。红十字会说：「我们的团队和伙伴仍在现场，搜寻不会停止。」红十字会的寻人登记处共接到31宗失联报告，正在逐一核实，其中部分最初被报告失联的人已被找到。
肯尼亚国家警察局周六宣布，已对这栋楼的业主和承建承包商展开追查，调查坍塌是否涉及疏忽或违反建筑法规。国家警察局发言人 Muchiri Nyaga 在声明中说：「任何被认定存在疏忽或违反建筑法规的个人或机构，都将面临法律的全面追究。」
参与现场处置的包括国家警察局、肯尼亚国防军、肯尼亚红十字会和内罗毕市县应急队伍，救援人员动用挖掘机与搜救犬清理废墟。坍塌原因仍在调查中。
Two Survivors Pulled From Rubble of Collapsed Nairobi Tower as Police Hunt Owner and Contractor
A high-rise under construction in the Eastleigh district of Nairobi, Kenya, collapsed on the afternoon of October 23. On Saturday, October 24, rescue teams pulled two survivors from the rubble one after the other; both were taken to Kenyatta National Hospital, and the search at the site was continuing.
The collapse occurred at a building under construction on 9th Street, reported by local media to be about 18 storeys tall. Interior Cabinet Secretary Kipchumba Murkomen said all 67 construction workers at the site had been accounted for: 66 escaped unharmed and one was taken to hospital in stable condition. However, about 11 shops on the ground floor and in the basement were occupied when the building came down, and seven people were initially reported missing. Capital FM reported that rescuers had earlier made contact with people trapped beneath the debris.
The Kenya Red Cross said on Saturday that its search-and-rescue teams, working with multi-agency partners, brought a trapped man out of the rubble after hours of work and took him to hospital, and later rescued a woman. 'Our teams and partners remain on site, and the search continues,' the organisation said. Its tracing desk had received 31 missing-person reports, which were being verified; some people initially reported missing had since been traced.
Kenya's National Police Service announced on Saturday that it had launched a manhunt for the building's owner and the contractor, as investigators examine whether negligence or breaches of building regulations contributed to the collapse. 'Any individual or entity found culpable of negligence or of violating building regulations will face the full force of the law,' NPS spokesperson Muchiri Nyaga said in a statement.
The response involves the National Police Service, the Kenya Defence Forces, the Kenya Red Cross and Nairobi City County emergency crews, with excavators and sniffer dogs deployed to clear the debris. The cause of the collapse remains under investigation.
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图片来源：图：肯尼亚首都内罗毕 Upper Hill 一带鸟瞰（资料图，非坍塌现场）。来源：Xiaotong Gao，CC BY-SA 3.0，经 Wikimedia Commons。 / File photo: Aerial view of Nairobi's Upper Hill area in Kenya (not the collapse site). Source: Xiaotong Gao, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
