A fire outbreak at the Internally Displaced Persons’ camp in Borno State has claimed three lives and left six other persons injured, the National Emergency Management Authority has revealed.
The agency , in a statement by its Information Officer, North-East zone , Maiduguri, Abdulkadir Ibrahim , revealed that the fire incident started from the kitchen section of the camp.
Ibrahim said the incident occurred at the College of Business Administration , Konduga , which presently houses 6,213 displaced persons .
He said the fire , which gutted a part of the camp, started at about 10: 40 am on Thursday .
He said immediately the fire was noticed , the emergency response team of NEMA was sent to the scene to quench the fire .
Speaking to our correspondent on the telephone, the Chairman of Borno State Emergency Management Agency , Ahmed Satomi, described the fire incident as unfortunate .
He said , “We have to put structures in place to ensure that such an incident does not occur at the Konduga camp and at any other of our camps .”
Satomi, who spoke to our correspondent at about 5:15pm , on Thursday , said he just returned from Konduga to the state capital , Maiduguri, to transport food and other relief materials for the use of those at the camp.
He said , “I am on my way to Konduga to take relief materials, foods and beddings to the displaced persons at the camp as the fire incident affected their foods and their hostel. ”
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