Two people were killed and five injured when a commercial building under construction in a south-eastern suburb of Kampala collapsed, crushing the building-site workers, police officials said on Friday.
”The building went down as the workers were pouring the concrete mix on the third floor. We rescued five people and one is in very critical condition.
”Two bodies were recovered by midnight and we put off the operation when we reached the ground floor,” Kampala chief fire officer Joseph Mugisha said.
The accident on Thursday night comes just two months after a similar accident in which 11 people died and 20 were injured.
Both building sites were located on the same highway linking Uganda’s capital to Entebbe International airport. — Sapa-DPA