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Rescue workers freed the woman from the rubble
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Four people have been rescued from the ruins of a residential building in Kenya's capital, Nairobi, six days after it collapsed in heavy rains.
Kenya Red Cross says a woman who was first to be rescued on Thursday is now receiving hospital treatment.
Since her rescue, three other people have been pulled to safety.
Thirty-six people have been confirmed dead following the collapse of the six-storey residence last Friday and more than 80 people are still missing.
The building's presumed owners have been released on bail after being arrested on Monday.
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Officials say the first person to be rescued on Thursday was
weak but had no obvious signs of injury
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The rescued woman has been taken to hospital for treatment
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Rescuers worked to get the first survivor free after she was found on Thursday morning.
She was extracted from the collapsed building while lying in between thick concrete slabs and twisted metal. Rescuers gave her oxygen while pulling her clear of the debris.
Bystanders who had been watching the rescue in Nairobi's Huruma neighbourhood applauded as she was carried away on a stretcher.
Shortly afterwards three other people were pulled from the rubble.
"Super news! Three more people have been rescued alive from the Huruma building collapse. One male and two female," the Red Cross said on its Twitter feed.
'Morale boosting rescue' - Anne Soy, BBC Africa, Nairobi
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The survivor was given an intravenous drip and oxygen while
rescuers tried to dig her out
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Getting the first survivor clear of the rubble was a delicate process that took hours of patient work.
She was able to speak to the rescue team and medics also put her on an intravenous drip as they worked to free her.
Rescuers said the woman was weak but had no obvious signs of injury.
The head of Kenya's National Disaster Management Unit, Pius Masai, told the BBC there was still hope that more people would be found alive.
A seven-month-old child was pulled alive from the rubble on Tuesday, but her mother was found dead the following day.
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The rescue operation began shortly after the building
collapsed on Friday
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City authorities say they had earmarked the building for demolition after it was declared unfit for human habitation.
An official audit of the country's buildings found that more than half in the capital are not suitable for people to live in.
'Miracle' rescues
- 2004 Iran earthquake - Woman in her 90s found alive and unscathed eight days after a huge earthquake destroyed the city of Bam
- 2005 South Asian earthquake - Shameer Shah Jehan, aged five, rescued from collapsed school in Balakot, Pakistan, after three days. Extraordinarily, a 40-year-old woman was saved from what had been her kitchen in Pakistani-administered Kashmir, more than two months after the quake
- 2010 Haiti earthquake - 24-year-old man pulled alive from the rubble of a ruined hotel in Port-au-Prince after 11 days. Another man was rescued a day later from under a shop
- May 2013 Bangladesh building collapse - Woman pulled from the ruins of a factory, 17 days after it collapsed
- 2015 Nepal earthquake - 15-year-old boy pulled out five days after an earthquake devastated the capital Kathmandu and the surrounding area
- 2016 Kenya building collapse - six-month-old baby pulled out after four days under rubble
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