Horror, tears as 3 roasted to death in IDP camp in Borno
At least three people have died from a fire accident at an Internally Displaced Persons (IDP) camp on Thursday, March 16.
NEMA fire-fighters trying to put out the fire. Photo: PR Nigeria
PR Nigeria reports that the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) confirmed the fire incident that consumed the IDP camp in Konduga, Borno state.
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NEMA spokesperson in the North-East Abdulkadir Ibrahim said that the camp which is located at College Of Business Administration accommodates 6,213 IDPs.
Abdulkadir said: “The fire started at about 10. 40 am from the cooking area leading to the death of three people and injury to six persons.”
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Fires at IDP camps are common because of the materials with which the makeshift camps are built.
Just recently a fire killed two kids and also cost at least 400 families their homes in a camp at Jere Local Government Area of the state was located few kilometres from Maiduguri, the state capital.
Meanwhile, Reuters has reported that West African forces under the umbrella of the Multinational Joint Task Force (MNJTF) freed 5,000 people held by insurgents and killed about 60 Boko Haram fighters.
The massive victory was recorded in an operation in which the Islamist group’s hideout along the Nigeria-Cameroon border were also destroyed, Cameroonian officials said on Wednesday, March 15.