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Article: For 36 hours he was buried alive in the darkness with a broken leg
- Article from:
- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- August 11, 1998
- Author:
CopyrightCopyright 1998 The Independent - London. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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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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