The National Emergency Management Agency(NEMA) on Friday said one was killed, while 17 others were injured in a fire incident at Kalari Muna Elbadawy Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) camp, Maiduguri, Borno.

Principal Information Officer NEMA North-East, Abdulkadir Ibrahim, made this understood to NAN on Friday.

Ibrahim stated about 100 shelters were destroyed, while dozens of households in the camps were displaced as a result of the occurrence.

He said the fire which began with a cooking fire in one of the IDP camping tents at about 1pm, was, however, brought under control by the personnel of the State Fire Service.

Ibrahim discussed that the hurt victims had been administered emergency treatment.

He included that a combined team of the NEMA and the State Emergency Management Agency (SEMA) were on ground to assess the degree of destruction in the camp.