Nigeria: IDP Camp Bombing - Ministers, Service Chiefs Arrive Maiduguri

18 January 2017

A federal government delegation led by the Chief of staff to President Muhammadu Buhari, has arrived Maiduguri, Borno State, in respect of Tuesday's bombing of a displaced persons' camp in the state.

At least 52 persons were killed and 120 others injured after an Air Force jet mistakenly targeted the IDP camp at Rann, near the border with Cameroon, where people displaced by the Boko Haram insurgency, lived.

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