Entebbe church collapse left rescue teams searching through rubble on Tuesday 27 October 2026, after a four-storey extension under construction collapsed on Monday evening in Bwerenga, Katabi Town Council, Wakiso District. According to Uganda Police, approximately 22 people had been rescued and evacuated to Entebbe Grade B Hospital for medical attention.
Kampala Metropolitan Police spokesperson Racheal Kawala confirmed the incident, saying police in Entebbe had registered the collapse and that rescue operations were ongoing. “We are working to establish whether anyone remains trapped beneath the rubble,” Kawala said, in a statement reported by multiple Ugandan outlets.
A fourth-floor extension gives way
Preliminary findings indicate that the collapsed structure was an extension of the main church building at Holy City Church, Brother Ronnie’s Ministries, and had reached the fourth floor before it came down, police said. The Daily Monitor reported that the rescued were also taken to Entebbe Regional Referral Hospital and Kisubi Hospital, and that how many people might still be trapped remained unclear.
NTV Uganda reported that more than 10 people were injured in the collapse. Joint teams from the Uganda Police Force and the Uganda People’s Defence Forces worked at the scene through the evening, according to reporting on the rescue. No deaths had been confirmed in the police statements available on Tuesday morning, and this post does not claim any.
Cause under investigation
Police said investigations into the cause of the collapse are ongoing. They had not established whether structural defects, construction practices or other factors contributed to the incident, and had not provided a full account of the people at the construction site when the structure gave way.
The collapse came days after a building collapse in Eastleigh, Nairobi, Kenya, according to People Daily, raising fresh questions about construction safety for multi-storey buildings under construction in the region. For the families waiting in Entebbe, the immediate question remains the search itself: whether anyone is still alive under the debris, and how quickly heavy equipment can reach them.
