Kenyan Woman's Dramatic Rescue From Rubble After Trapped for 6 Days

Three adults and one baby have been rescued so far.

ByABC News
May 5, 2016, 1:32 PM

— -- A woman has been rescued after being trapped for six days in the rubble of a collapsed building in Nairobi, Kenya, the Red Cross confirmed to ABC News.

A rescue team made contact with the woman around 11 a.m. local time, Anthony Mwangi, head of corporate affairs for the Kenya Red Cross Society, told ABC News.

"Emergency responders were able to give her oxygen and intravenously administer water and glucose to stabilize her. She was successfully evacuated around 3 p.m. local time," Mwangi said. "They did a really great job at pulling her out."

The woman's rescue was broadcast on Kenyan TV and crowds applauded as she was taken to an ambulance headed for a nearby hospital.

"She was not in a position to speak so we do not know yet who she is," Mwangi said, adding that while she had visible injuries, it was unclear how badly she had been hurt.

The search and rescue response is still on-going, the Red Cross said in a statement, adding that half of the rubble has been cleared. Four people -- one man, two women and a six-month-old baby -- have been rescued since the collapse of the building nearly a week ago. One of women was eight months pregnant.

"Working space poses the major challenge," the Kenyan Red Cross Society said, "as the collapsed building is sandwiched between buildings on two sides while the third side is a river front. There are currently two excavators at the rescue operation site which has helped to speed up the recovery efforts."

Seventy people are still missing but Mwangi said he remains hopeful that others will be found.

The 6-month-old baby, who was found after being trapped in the rubble for 80 hours, is now in stable condition. A total of 24 bodies have so far been recovered from the debris.