4 TRAPPED AFTER BUILDING COLLAPSED IN CITY SUBURB ROHINGYA NOT MERELY AN ASEAN PROBLEM: MALAYSIAN PM

At least four people are feared trapped in rubble after a four-story building collapsed in the city’s outskirts, a Kenya police official said Saturday. Joseph Gichangi, the police chief of the Ruai area, said a watchman who left the building, a guest house, shortly before it collapsed reported four guests inside. Kenya’s military was leading rescue operations. Building collapses have become common in Nairobi, where 4 million people live in low-income areas or slums. Housing is in high demand and unscrupulous developers often bypass regulations. After eight buildings collapsed and killed 15 people in Kenya in 2015, President Uhuru Kenyatta ordered an audit of all the country’s buildings to see if they were up to standard. Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak said Saturday that the displacement of Rohingya Muslims was no longer solely a domestic issue for Myanmar, as Southeast Asian nations signed a counterterrorism cooperation agreement at a regional leaders’ conference. Najib made his comments at a meeting of the 10 members of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, or Asean, being hosted by Australia. The summit has been marked by protests against the regimes of Myanmar and Cambodia. In a pointed and rare departure from the grouping’s policy of non-interference in the affairs of fellow member nations, Najib said Rohingya refugees fleeing from alleged persecution by Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi’s government were a prime target for radicalization from the Islamic State group.