Article: For 36 hours he was buried alive in the darkness with a broken leg

BOMB VICTIMS Sammy and Rose have become household names in Nairobi since Friday's devastating attack on the United States embassy.

Yesterday Sammy Nganga, the only person to be pulled alive from Ufundi House, the flattened office block next door to the embassy, spoke from hospital for the first time about Rose, the woman he befriended beneath a mountain of concrete but had to leave behind.

It is Rose that rescue teams, after four days of recovering only the dead, are still battling to reach, hoping that she, at least, may just still be alive. It was for Rose yesterday that the mechanical diggers stopped and the watching crowd fell silent as a microphone was lowered into the mess of stone and ...

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