One person was killed and 17 others left injured in a fire at the Kalari Muna Elbadawy Internally Displaced Persons, IDPs camp in Maiduguri, Borno, according to the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA).

Abdulkadir Ibrahim, the NEMA North East’s Principal Information Officer, stated this during an interview in Maiduguri

Roughly 100 shelters were destroyed, according to Ibrahim, and scores of households in the IDPs camp were left homeless as a result of the incident.

He claimed that the fire broke out around 1 p.m. in one of the IDPs’ tents, where one of them was cooking, but was quickly put out by State Fire Service personnel.

Officials from NEMA, the Borno Emergency Management Agency, the Nigerian Red Cross, and other stakeholders provided first aid to the injured persons, according to Ibrahim.

He stated a joint team from the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) and the State Emergency Management Agency (SEMA) was on the ground to examine the extent of the camp’s destruction.

There were around 10,000 houses and 50,000 people in the camp.

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