One dies, 17 injured as fire destroys Borno IDPs camp
The National Emergency Management Agency on Friday said one was killed, while 17 others were injured in a fire incident at Kalari Muna Elbadawy Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) camp, Maiduguri, Borno.
Principal Information Officer, NEMA North East, Abdulkadir Ibrahim, said this in an interview in Maiduguri.
Mr Ibrahim said about 100 shelters were destroyed, while dozens of households in the camps were displaced.
He said the fire which started at about 1:00 p.m. from one of the IDPs tents, where one of them was cooking, was brought under control by the State Fire Service.
Mr Ibrahim explained that officials of NEMA, Borno Emergency Management Agency, Nigerian Red Cross and other stakeholders had administered first aid to the injured victims.
He said a combined team of NEMA and the State Emergency Management Agency (SEMA) were on ground to assess the extent of destruction in the camp.
The camp consisted of more than 10,000 households and 50,000 individuals.
(NAN)
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