12 people missing feared trapped or dead after five-storey residential building collapses in Nairobi Kenya

Dozens of people are feared trapped or dead after this five-storey building collapsed in Nairobi, Kenya
One person is dead and dozens more are trapped after a five-storey residential building collapsed in downtown Nairobi.

Rescue services have been working frantically to save those trapped inside the building, which collapsed just after 2am on Wednesday morning.

As many as 30 families lived in the building, local media report, and many would have been asleep as the walls came crashing down around them. 
Dust rises around a worker cutting through concrete with a circular saw
 Rescuers carry a survivor from the rubble of a residential building in Makongeni estate in Kenya's capital Nairobi, which collapsed just after 2am on Wednesday morning
A survivor receives treatment inside an ambulance after he was rescued from the rubble
According to local reports up to 30 families are believed to have been living in the five storey building

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