Six people were killed and five others injured after the top floor of a multi-storey building under construction collapsed in an area southeast of Kenya’s capital, Nairobi, on Friday, according to a police official.
“So far, we have confirmed six bodies, but also five people have been rushed to Imara Daima Hospital,” Duncan Ochieng, Kenya’s Assistant Inspector General of Police in charge of disaster management, told reporters at the scene.
Ochieng said 405 workers were present at the construction site when the collapse occurred, adding that all had since been accounted for. He explained that the building’s top floor gave way while construction work was underway, prompting authorities to shut down the site.
The incident occurred in the Syokimau area, southeast of Nairobi, the Kenya Red Cross confirmed in a social media post.
The latest tragedy comes less than a month after another major building collapse in the Kenyan capital. On October 23, an unfinished 12-storey structure collapsed in Nairobi, killing eight people.
According to the state-run Kenya Institute for Public Policy Research and Analysis, building collapses in the country are primarily linked to poor workmanship, substandard construction materials, inadequate supervision and defective structural designs.
Kenya has recorded 24 building collapses so far in 2026, as of October, the highest annual figure in the current decade, according to Stats Kenya, a company specialising in data-driven research.
The latest incident has renewed concerns over construction safety standards and oversight in the country, amid a series of deadly building accidents.
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