6 RESCUED SIX DAYS AFTER NAIROBI BUILDING COLLAPSE

Nairobi, Kenya — Three more people were pulled alive from the rubble of a six-story building that collapsed six days ago in the Kenyan capital of Nairobi, just hours after a pregnant woman was rescued alive, the country’s Red Cross said on Thursday.

The pregnant woman was taken to a hospital, the Red Cross tweeted. Her husband later confirmed that her rescue had taken three hours and that she had only sustained light injuries, but that the baby had died in utero.

The Red Cross confirmed later in the day that three others — two women and a man — had been pulled alive from the rubble but that one of the women succumbed to her wounds shortly thereafter, bringing the death toll in the collapse to 37.

Nairobi, Kenya — Rescuers found four survivors Thursday in the rubble of an apartment building that collapsed six days ago amid heavy rains in the Kenyan capital, raising hopes that more people might still be alive in a disaster that has left dozens dead and missing.

The first to be rescued was a pregnant woman, although her husband said that amid the joy of finding her alive, doctors also reported that their baby had not survived. In addition, one of those found alive later died en route to the hospital, officials said.

Soldiers, firefighters and volunteers have been working around the clock since the April 29 collapse of the seven-story building in a desper- ate search effort, and their spirits were lifted Tuesday when a nearly 6-month-old girl — dehydrated but relatively unscathed — was found in a wash basin.

Then on Thursday, they found 24-year-old Elizabeth Night Odhiambo, who was eight months pregnant, said her husband, Stephen Onyango.

A crowd broke into applause as Odhiambo — under a blanket and with her face covered with an oxygen mask — was carried to an ambulance in a scene broadcast live on Kenyan TV.

Odhiambo was taken to Kenyatta National Hospital, where she underwent an emergency cesarean section, but doctors told Onyango the baby had not survived.

“A doctor pulled me aside and told me, ‘Your wife is here in the (oper- ating) theater, and when she was in the collapsed building, the baby died in her stomach and we have removed it,’” Onyango told The Associated Press. “He showed me the baby, and I told him it was OK.”

Despite that news, Onyango said he was joyful his wife was still alive.

“I cannot say the happiness I have,” the truck driver said in a telephone interview. “I have never had such happiness like this in my life.”

Onyango said he was able to comfort his wife after the surgery.

Pius Masai, the head of the Disaster Management Unit, said that of the other three people rescued after Odhiambo, one died because the ambulance did not have advanced life-saving equipment. The condition of the other two was not immediately known.

The disaster has killed 37 people and injured 134. About 70 people remain missing, said Kenya Red Cross head Abbas Gullet, and rescuers were working around the clock to find survivors.

Before military engineers broke through slabs of concrete that had trapped Odhiambo in a corner of the building, medics had managed to give her oxygen and an intravenous drip of water and glucose, according to Kenya’s Disaster Management Unit.

Authorities initially used backhoes in the search, with firefighters and volunteers also removing chunks of debris by hand in the frantic rescue effort. A day after the collapse, the military brought in special equipment, including trained dogs.