KENYAN BUILDING COLLAPSE NEAR NAIROBI KILLS SIX PEOPLE. (PHOTO).

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 Kenyan building collapse near Nairobi kills six people The collapse of an unfinished eight-storey building in Kenya has killed six people. The structure fell on Friday morning in Syokimau on the outskirts of Nairobi. Construction workers were reportedly at the site when the building’s uppermost concrete slab gave way, bringing down part of the structure, according to a preliminary report from Nairobi City County’s emergency team. The report did not establish why the slab failed. The Kenya Red Cross initially reported that three people had been rescued and one person was reported missing. TV reports later said that five people had been pulled alive from the rubble and taken to hospital. The emergency report said the number of workers present when the building fell had not been confirmed, leaving open the possibility that others were trapped. Firefighters and specialist rescue teams were continuing to search for survivors.

LOUVRE PUTS BARS ON WINDOW AFTER GALLERY THEFT. (PHOTO).


 Louvre puts bars on window after gallery theft

 The Louvre Museum on Tuesday installed metal bars over the windows of its Apollo Gallery following a daylight robbery in which thieves made off with crown jewels.

“This is one of the emergency measures decided after the theft,” museum deputy administrator Francis Steinbock said. Workers used a crane to position a large grille over the gallery’s tall French doors on the balcony early in the morning.

“We had committed to doing it before the end of the year,” Steinbock added, noting that plans to secure additional windows are still being discussed. Louvre director Laurence des Cars had told lawmakers that a grille would be reinstalled before Christmas, after one had been removed during restoration work in 2003–2004.

The bars are the latest in a series of security measures following the October heist, in which thieves stole jewelry valued at roughly $102 million. Police have been deployed at the museum, and upgrades to video surveillance are underway. Anti-intrusion measures around the museum were also recently completed.

During the Oct. 19 robbery, the thieves parked a truck with an extendable ladder beneath the Apollo Gallery, climbed up, broke a window, and used angle grinders to cut into display cases containing the French crown jewels, which remain missing.

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