4 people rescued 6 days after Kenyan building collapse

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Dealeryn Saisi Wasike, the baby girl rescued early Tuesday from the rubble of a collapsed building, lies in a hospital bed at Kenyatta National Hospital in Nairobi.

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Kenyan National Youth Service personnel remove stones by hand at the site of a building collapse in Nairobi.

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Security forces carry a boy as people are evacuated from the scene of a collapsed building in Nairobi.

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A Kenyan woman looks at what used to be her home after a residential building collapsed in Nairobi.

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Kenyans carry a survivor from a collapsed building in Nairobi.

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Security forces and emergency crews carry a survivor from a collapsed building in Nairobi.

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Rescue crews search for survivors at the site of a building collapse in Nairobi, Kenya.

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By Associated Press

May 5, 2016 9:31 AM PT

reporting from NAIROBI, Kenya —

A Kenyan official says three more people have been rescued after being trapped for six days in the rubble of a collapsed building, bringing the number of those rescued Thursday to four.

Nairobi’s police chief Japheth Koome said two women and a man were rescued late Thursday after a woman eight months pregnant was rescued earlier in the day. The rescue of the four people comes as the death toll from the collapse of the seven-story building rose to 36 and 70 people remain missing.

A nearly six-month-old baby was rescued on Tuesday, which raised hopes that more survivors would be found. The infant was found unharmed in a washbasin four days after the building collapsed.

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