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No Sign of Life in Building Collapse

Wednesday, January 25, 2006 2:17:16 PM
By ANTHONY MITCHELL

Rescue workers continue to look for survivors, Wednesday, Jan. 25, 2006 at the site where a building collapsed on Monday in Nairobi, Kenya. An Israeli rescue team pulled three more bodies from a collapsed building early Wednesday, bringing the death toll to 17 as hopes faded that more survivors trapped for a third day beneath the rubble would be pulled out alive. (AP Photo  /  Karel Prinsloo)NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) - With pain etched deep into her face, Mariano Mugami has just started to grieve for her niece who was killed in a building collapse in downtown Nairobi. But she will not give up her vigil for her brother's body, still lost in the tomb of mangled concrete.

Rescuers said Wednesday they have not detected any signs of life from the rubble of a five-story building that tumbled down while full of construction workers, killing 17 and injuring more than 100 on Monday.

"I feel like it was my fault they died because I got them the job," the soft-spoken shop owner told The Associated Press. They had been working there for just three months before the tragedy, Mugami said.


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