Five persons including three children were feared dead when fire razed a section of Sani Abacha internally displaced persons camp in Maiduguri on Thursday.
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Several other displaced persons in the camp sustained different degrees of burns.
The cause of the fire is yet to be ascertained but a source told The InfoTrust that it may have been started from a kitchen in the west flank of the camp.
Firemen were able to get to the scene about 45 minutes after the fire started.
A source with an international humanitarian agency told The InfoTrust on Thursday that 7,457 IDPs were rendered homeless.
