Over 1,600 houses at the Muna garage Internally Displaced Persons (IDP) camp in Maiduguri, went up in flames as Muslims prepared for the EID El Fitr celebration.
Two persons die from the sever burns they sustained from the inferno.
Emergency Management Agency Chairperson in Borno, Yabawa Kolo said the incident happened on the eve of the Eid-El-Fitr bringing sorrow to the inhabitants of the camp.
Governor Babagana Zulum who visited the camp to ascertain the level of destruction caused by the fire ordered help be rendered to the affected persons there.
Zulum said the incessant fire incidences in makeshift camps further underscores why camps should be completely shut.
The governor revealed that the federal government has approved the construction of ten thousand housing units across the state, with in the affected IDP population, which is expected to define an end to temporary shelters.
In the first quarter of this year alone, several IDP camps in Nganzai, Ngala, Mafa and Monguno local governments were gutted by fire as a result of the density of persons in settlement there.
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