March 12, (THEWILL) – At least two children have been reported killed, on Tuesday, in a fire incident at the Muna Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs), camp in Maiduguri, the Borno State capital.
While THEWILL can not immediately confirm the cause of the inferno as at the time of this report, the incident was said to have occurred on Tuesday morning, before the commencement of the Ramadan fasting at the Camp.
Besides the two children, many IDPs also sustained varying degrees of injuries during the inferno.
Authorities of the Borno State Police Command and the state government are yet to comment on the incident.
Borno has been ravaged by Boko Haram insurgency for over a decade which has left thousands of people dead and many others displaced.
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