Two people have died and many others injured in fire outbreaks that occurred concurrently at an internally displaced peoples (IDPs)camp in Gajiram, headquarters of Nganzai local government area of Borno state.
Over 200 houses, made of grass and corrugated sheets, were razed during the fire incidents, a humanitarian official said.
He said the cause of the incident was yet to be ascertained.
The official said the incidents happened in sequence, adding that the first one was on Monday night, and the second occurred Tuesday morning, while efforts were going on to extinguish the first one.
Along with insurgents’ attacks, Gajiram IDP camp had in November 2020 experienced a fire outbreak that left over 7,200 people without shelter.
Boko Haram insurgency in the North east Nigerian has forced more than two million people to flee their homes since 2009, with many of them settling into squalid camps.
Faced with the new disaster in the month of Ramadan, the IDPs in the Gajiram camp, who are mostly Muslims have been left without food and shelter.
A state government official has said that the state Governor Babagana Zulum, would visit the local government on Thursday.