Police in Kenya say that seven people have died in the collapse of a residential building in the capital Nairobi.

Search and rescue efforts were continuing at the scene.

Kenyan officials say the six-story building collapsed after heavy rain and flooding - trapping an unknown number of people in the rubble.

The Kenya Red Cross said a search team managed to pull three children and an adult from the debris.

Kenyan National Youth Service personnel remove stones with hands at the site of a building collapse. Picture by: Sayyid Abdul Azim / AP/Press Association Images