About 8,000 people have fled Rann, a Borno border town, to Cameroon in the aftermath of a Boko Haram attack on the town last Tuesday.
Aid
organisation Medecins San Frontieres (MSF) in an update on the Rann
attack released Thursday night said residents fled to Bodo, a remote
community in Cameroon, some seven kilometres from Rann.
“Our
sources in Bodo estimates that some 8,000 people arrived yesterday and
we expect several thousand more may come today,” Hugues Robert, MSF
Programme Manager for Nigeria, Hugues Robert, said in the update.
“We
are preparing to assist 15,000 people with food, water and medical care
over the coming days. Many people were in a state of shock and were
clearly distressed by what they had witnessed. Now they have lost all
that they have and need absolutely everything,” he added.
The
organisation said many of the refugees have spent the night outdoors
without shelters. Many of these locals are children, breastfeeding
mother and pregnant women, MSF said.
It said a team consisting of
medical and logistical staff have been distributing food and water, and
are providing emergency medical care.
Rann has suffered attacks
by Boko Haram and a case of mistaken firing by the Nigerian Air Force in
January 2017, leading to the death of many.
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