“As emergency workers retrieved four bodies from a building that collapsed a week ago, bringing the death toll to 41, hundreds of Nairobi residents were evicted Friday from nearby buildings that are being torn down to prevent other deadly disasters. The demolitions began even as the rescuers continued digging the debris from the seven-story building which collapsed a week ago. Four survivors were rescued Thursday but one died on arrival at hospital. A pregnant woman among the four rescued also lost her baby. At least 70 people remain missing and as rescue work continued in the rain Friday, hopes dimmed of finding more survivors. Nairobi is facing a period of heavy seasonal rains and officials are working to avert other disasters. After eight buildings collapsed and killed 15 people in the country last year, an audit of Kenya's buildings found that 58 percent in Nairobi are unfit for habitation. Following this building collapse, authorities are taking action by tearing down condemned buildings.

But residents evicted from at least six buildings in the Huruma neighborhood complained they were not given enough time to find alternative accommodation. “I have stayed in this apartment block for more than three years. Since our neighbors' building collapsed we were given less than a week's notice to leave which is not enough”, Anna Kaloki said. “My husband our two children and I have moved in with my cousin, her husband and their two children, in their single-roomed apartment”, she said. She said her furniture could not fit in her cousin's apartment and was left out in the rain. Kaloki said her husband is a casual laborer and she sells sarongs on the street and they cannot afford to raise the $70 needed to rent a new room. “Sometimes the government does things without considering the people and we are not the ones who have done wrong we are just tenants”, she said. “The people who constructed these substandard buildings should be forced to get us alternative accommodation and we should not pay for it”. – Tom Odula and Ben Curtis via The Associated Press



Residents move sofas and beds from a block of flats which is going which is going to be demolished on May 6, 2016. Following a building collapse which claimed at least 40 lives with more 80 people still unaccounted for, after severe flooding, the government has ordered the demolition of similar unsafe buildings in the area. Located in the poor, tightly-packed Huruma neighbourhood, the building, which housed around 150 families crammed into single rooms, had been slated for demolition after being declared structurally unsound. But an evacuation order for the structure, which was built next to a river just two years ago, was ignored. (Photo by Carl de Souza/AFP Photo)





Residents look across as a mechanical digger demolishes their neighbors' shacks on the other side of the river, close to the site of last week's building collapse, after their homes were deemed unfit for habitation, in the Huruma neighborhood of Nairobi, Kenya Friday, May 6, 2016. (Photo by Ben Curtis/AP Photo)





A woman leaves with her television set, as she and others are evicted from their apartment blocks close to the site of last week's building collapse, after their homes were deemed unfit for habitation and marked for demolition, in the Huruma neighborhood of Nairobi, Kenya Friday, May 6, 2016. (Photo by Ben Curtis/AP Photo)





A woman holds a baby as residents are evicted from their apartment blocks close to the site of last week's building collapse, after their homes were deemed unfit for habitation and marked for demolition, in the Huruma neighborhood of Nairobi, Kenya, Friday, May 6, 2016. As emergency workers retrieved more bodies from a building that collapsed a week ago, bringing the death toll to 41, hundreds of residents were evicted from nearby buildings that are being torn down to prevent other disasters. (Photo by Ben Curtis/AP Photo)





A man carries some of his belongings, as he and others are evicted from their apartment blocks close to the site of last week's building collapse, after their homes were deemed unfit for habitation and marked with a red “X” for demolition, in the Huruma neighborhood of Nairobi, Kenya, Friday, May 6, 2016. (Photo by Ben Curtis/AP Photo)





Residents lower furniture down to the street as they and others are evicted from their apartment blocks close to the site of last week's building collapse, after their homes were deemed unfit for habitation and marked for demolition, in the Huruma neighborhood of Nairobi, Kenya, Friday, May 6, 2016. (Photo by Ben Curtis/AP Photo)





Residents look out from their apartment block, which was not marked for demolition because it was a sufficient distance from the river, as their neighbors in other buildings closer to the site of last week's building collapse are evicted after their homes were deemed unfit for habitation and marked for demolition, in the Huruma neighborhood of Nairobi, Kenya, Friday, May 6, 2016. (Photo by Ben Curtis/AP Photo)





A woman and child look out from their balcony as below rescue efforts continue at the site of last week's building collapse, in the Huruma neighborhood of Nairobi, Kenya, Friday, May 6, 2016. (Photo by Ben Curtis/AP Photo)





Kenyan Red Cross workers carry away a body from the site of last week's building collapse, in the Huruma neighborhood of Nairobi, Kenya, Friday, May 6, 2016. (Photo by Ben Curtis/AP Photo)





A woman in an apartment block marked for demolition after being deemed unfit for habitation looks out from her balcony, as opposite another condemned building is demolished, close to the site of last week's building collapse in the Huruma neighborhood of Nairobi, Kenya Friday, May 6, 2016. (Photo by Ben Curtis/AP Photo)





Women carry some of their belongings, as they and others are evicted from their apartment blocks close to the site of last week's building collapse, after their homes were deemed unfit for habitation and marked with a red “X” for demolition, in the Huruma neighborhood of Nairobi, Kenya Friday, May 6, 2016. (Photo by Ben Curtis/AP Photo)





Rescuers standing on the sandwiched floors of the collapsed building continue the search for survivors and to retrieve more bodies, at the site of last week's building collapse in the Huruma neighborhood of Nairobi, Kenya Friday, May 6, 2016. (Photo by Ben Curtis/AP Photo)





Residents retrieve some of their remaining belongings after a mechanical digger demolished their homes, close to the site of last week's building collapse, after the homes were deemed unfit for habitation and they were evicted, in the Huruma neighborhood of Nairobi, Kenya Friday, May 6, 2016. (Photo by Ben Curtis/AP Photo)





Residents look across after a mechanical digger demolished their neighbors' shacks on the other side of the river, close to the site of last week's building collapse, after their homes were deemed unfit for habitation, in the Huruma neighborhood of Nairobi, Kenya Friday, May 6, 2016. (Photo by Ben Curtis/AP Photo)





A young girl carries some of her family's belongings, as she and others are evicted from their apartment blocks close to the site of last week's building collapse, after their homes were deemed unfit for habitation and marked with a red “X” for demolition, in the Huruma neighborhood of Nairobi, Kenya Friday, May 6, 2016. (Photo by Ben Curtis/AP Photo)