Five people were killed in a fire at a camp for those displaced by Boko Haram violence in northeast Nigeria, an eyewitness and a humanitarian source said on Friday.
The blaze broke out on Thursday at the camp housing some 7,500 internally displaced persons in the garrison town of Monguno, in Borno state.
The displaced people were preparing a meal when the fire broke out, gutting makeshift tents.
"Five people were killed in the fire - three children and two women," an aid worker with a humanitarian agency in the town told AFP.
"The fire started from the kitchen around 11:30 am (1030 GMT) and spread all over the camp," added the worker, who did not want to be identified.
Witness Adam Sheriff said firefighters tried in vain to put out the inferno which gutted the camp in 40 minutes.
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