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MAIDUGURI: Humanitarian workers flee IDP camp after attacks by displaced persons

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MAIDUGURI: Humanitarian workers flee IDP camp after attacks by displaced persons

Scores of humanitarian workers of the International Medical Corp have fled the Gubio IDP camp in Maiduguri, the Borno State capital, after they were attacked by internally displaced persons (IDP).

Reports say the humanitarian workers of the non-governmental organization were embarking on a monthly distribution of relief items on Monday when they were attacked with many of them sustaining injuries and the five Lexus Jeeps which they came in were damaged.

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According to reports, when the group commenced distribution of the items, the internally displaced persons rejected the rations, saying that it was too small and then started hurling stones at the staff.

 

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