Fourteen people were killed Thursday in a fire at a camp housing tens of thousands displaced by terrorists’ violence in northeast Nigerian, security and rescue sources told AFP.
The blaze broke out mid-morning in a camp holding some 70,000 people in the town of Gamboru, close to the border with Cameroon, the head of a government-backed militia told AFP.
More than 200 shelters were destroyed, rendering 1,250 people homeless, said a rescue official, who asked not to be named. It was not clear what caused the fire but residents blamed it on arson after a suspect was arrested with a lighter in his pocket, another militia member Shehu Mada said. Hundreds of thousands of people have been left living in often squalid and overcrowded camps where they rely on food aid from international charities.
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