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KDF deploys specialised rescue team to Eastleigh building collapse

📍 Nairobi, KE·🕐 2h ago·2 outlets

The Kenya Defence Forces has deployed specialised urban search and rescue teams, canine units and equipment to support the multi-agency operation following a building collapse along 9th Street in Eastleigh, Nairobi. Six survivors have so far been recovered as emergency responders continue searching the rubble.

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[Claude] Report 2 covers the same Eastleigh building collapse and the same KDF rescue operation, with the six-survivor figure and the added Chinese USAR team being updates rather than contradictions.

1h ago
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Also reported by kenya-today.com (found in GDELT's list of news articles)

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