At least 8 people are reportedly killed when a six-storey building still under construction collapsed near Makerere University in Kampala, eyewitnesses say.
A Makerere University student told EagleOnline the Kyaseka Towers a commercial building along Makerere Hill road after Ham Shopping Mall but before Makerere College School female hostels collapsed on Monday afternoon after the owners had added floors despite lacking a permit from authorities, which had sealed off the site – a common problem in Kampala surburbs where law enforcement is weak.
Good Samaritans initially put the death toll at five, but by press time Police were reportedly pulling out more victims from the rubble.
The building site had been inhabited by boutique owners on the ground floor.
“After they (the owners) finished building the house, rain fell and the house shifted a bit. They put iron in front of the house (but) the iron couldn’t hold the house,” said a man formerly working on the site to an eyewitness.
“They left it like that and continued building.”
More details to follow …
