Kampala. At least three people were killed when part of a multi-storey building under construction in Kampala collapsed during a heavy rainstorm on Sunday,
according to the Uganda Red Cross.Videos posted on social media showed construction workers and passers-by digging through debris with their bare hands and firefighters using cutting equipment to saw through buckled metal rods in a bid to reach people feared trapped.
The Red Cross said two bodies had been pulled from the rubble.
The building is next to the usually crowded Kisenyi Bus Terminal, a key transit hub in the Ugandan capital.
"It is alleged there were boda boda (motorcycle taxi) riders and a few people -- since it's raining -- who might have sought shelter [in] the building and people fear they could be buried under the building," said Uganda Red Cross official Irene Nakasiita.
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