NAIROBI, Kenya – Kenyan rescuers continued searching for survivors Sunday of a residential building in an impoverished area that collapsed Friday, as officials said the death toll has risen to 20 and 73 people remain missing.
Japheth Koome, the police chief for Nairobi, the capital, confirmed the death toll.
Authorities had initially said the building had six stories but it emerged that the ground and first floor had sunk following heavy rains.
The building, next to a river, had been declared unfit for human habitation by Kenya’s National Construction Authority but was not torn down.
Bribe-taking officers in the county government are responsible for allowing contractors bypass building codes, Nairobi governor Evan Kidero said. He vowed to fire those responsible. The building’s owner obeyed police orders and turned himself in for questioning, Koome, Nairobi’s police chief said.
WASHINGTON – A CSX freight train heading to North Carolina derailed near a Metro stop in Washington, D.C., on Sunday, sending 14 cars off the tracks and spilling hazardous material, officials said. No injuries were reported and no evacuations were ordered.
The train derailed about 6:40 a.m. near the Rhode Island Avenue Metro station and one of the cars leaked sodium hydroxide, which is used to produce various household products including paper, soap and detergents, CSX spokeswoman Kristin Seay said.
Sodium hydroxide, also known as corrosive lye, is a chemical that can irritate and burn the skin and eyes. CSX said hours later the leak was plugged. Mayor Muriel Bowser said at an earlier news conference that officials were not sure how much spilled. CSX said it will now focus its attention on cleanup efforts.
It was not immediately clear what caused the derailment of the train, which was heading to Hamlet, North Carolina, from Cumberland, Maryland.
In the early-morning hours of Sunday, a scuffle broke out between Fox News correspondent Jesse Watters and Ryan Grim, the Huffington Post’s Washington bureau chief, at the U.S. Institute of Peace building in Washington, during the swanky afterparty hosted by MSNBC following the White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner.
Here’s how it went down, per several witness: Grim and Watters were among a group located in a heated tent just outside the main party area. Grim realized who Watters was and recalled a beef he had with him that dated back to 2009, when Watters, known as an “ambush journalist,” had engineered an on-camera confrontation of writer Amanda Terkel, now a HuffPo colleague of Grim.
Grim decided to give Watters a taste of his own medicine, whipping out his camera phone and filming him. Watters eventually snatched the phone away from Grim and put it in his pocket. Grim set out to retrieve it, and a scuffle ensued. No cinematic sparring or broken beer bottles, witnesses said, but the two flailed around a bit, upending a table and bumping into several people.
Watters couldn’t immediately be reached for comment, but reached for comment, Grim was unrepentant. “Ambush guy can’t take getting ambushed,” he said. “Maybe he should think about his life choices.”
Associated Press & Washington Post
