A fire that swept through the Muna Alamdari Internally Displaced Persons, IDP, camp in Maiduguri, Borno State capital city, on Tuesday morning killed two children.
The fire also razed all the over 1,000 tents occupied by the IDPs and their families, including four blocks of 12 classrooms in the camp, according to Nahum Kenneth, spokesman of the Borno State Police Command.
A boy and a girl aged five years and four years, respectively, were killed by the inferno.
The devastating fire started at about 10:40 a.m. and destroyed every tent and property in the camp in less than 15 minutes. The cause remains unknown.
“The camp was completely burnt down,” an eyewitness told the press.
Mohammed Barkindo, the director-general of the Borno State Emergency Management Agency, SEMA, visited the camp hours after the incident with food items that were distributed to the IDPs.
He said he acted on the directives of the state governor, Babagana Zulum.
“We are distributing bread, rice, and other food items to enable them to break their fast.
The DG did not make known government plans on how to resettle the homeless persons.
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