A late afternoon fire destroyed the upper houses of a Manyanja Road building on Thursday.
Umoja News confirms there were no casualties reported during the 5:30pm incident. The cause of the fire has not yet been established.
Yesterday, evening, heavy smoke could be seen billowing from the multi-storey apartment building in Umoja’s, Innercore estate.
“The fire broke out around 5:30pm. I saw bed sheets on fire in a balcony in the building’s fifth floor,” an eyewitness recounted.
Umoja News has established that a house help and two children in the house where the fire broke out escaped unhurt.
Fire fighters from the Fire Rescue and Disaster Management Department of the Nairobi County Government managed to extinguish the fire by 8pm.
Police are still investigating the cause of the fire.
