By Ndahi Marama, Maiduguri.

One person has been confirmed dead with
unspecified number of Internally Displaced
Persons, IDPs injured when a fire suspected to
have emanated from a cooking point escalated in
Muna Elbawawi, near Maiduguri, the Borno State
capital.
The incident which took place at about 1.30 pm
on Friday, also razed down over one hundred
shelters, leaving hundreds of IDPs stranded and
displaced from the camp.


This is even as it has become a routine, and not a
surprise, as specified number of IDP camps
hosting millions of IDPs in the state do experience
fire on yearly basis.
According to the Information Officer of the
National Emergency Management Agency, NEMA,
North East Zonal Office, Mallam Abdulkadir
Ibrahim in a press statement on Friday said,
NEMA team and Fire Service Personnel promptly
responded and saved the situation from further
destruction.

“The fire incident is suspected to have been
caused by cooking fire from one of the shelters.
“Officials of NEMA, Nigerian Red Cross Society
and other stakeholders promptly responded, and
administered first aid to the injured victims, as
we regretted that one life was lost in the
inferno”. Ibrahim stated.

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