Nigeria, Feb. 17 -- Three persons, including an infant, were killed in a fire disaster on Tuesday that destroyed about 600 homes in an internally displaced persons' (IDP) camp in Maiduguri, Borno State.

The chairperson of the State Emergency Management Agency (SEMA), Yabawa Kolo, disclosed this on Wednesday.

"We lost three lives in the unfortunate fire outbreak. Two adults and an infant were burnt in the fire,"Mrs Kolo said..

"About 600 shelters which make up a household were burnt down in the two outbreaks that occurred on Tuesday."

She said about 3,600 IDPS were affected by the inferno.

SEMA officials visited the camp Wednesday afternoon to sympathise with the affected persons, most of whom passed the night in the harmatan cold.

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