A Nigerian armed services jet has mistakenly bombed a refugee camp, killing to a greater extent than than 100 people, a authorities official has said.
The incident took house inward Borno state inward northeastern Nigeria, where the armed services has been waging a armed services motility against the militant grouping Boko Haram.
Aid organisations as well as the local armed services said the air strike hitting a army camp for internally displaced people inward Rann, business office of the Kala-Balge local authorities expanse on the Republic of Cameroon border.
Regional armed services commander Major General Lucky Irabor told the Reuters tidings way he did non know how many people were killed.
“Many civilians including personnel of International Committee of the Red Cross as well as Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) were wounded,” he said.
MSF said it was treating 120 wounded, land the Nigerian armed services said to a greater extent than than 100 had died (MSF).
Major General Irabor said he had ordered the false attack, based on intelligence that Boko Haram fighters were inward the region. It is believed to endure the commencement fourth dimension the Nigerian armed services has admitted to such an error.
An employee with the International Committee of the Red Cross, speaking on status of anonymity, told the Associated Press xx Red Cross volunteers were alongside the dead.
The bombing was condemned yesteryear MSF, which described the incident every bit “shocking as well as unacceptable”.
A spokeswoman for MSF told The Independent the arrangement was indeed active inward the Kala Balge area, only was unable to verify whether its employees were alongside the victims.
She said MSF teams had seen 52 dead as well as 120 wounded every bit of Tuesday evening.
“Teams are trying to render emergency commencement aid inward its facility as well as are stabilising patients to evacuate wounded,” she said.
“We are scream for the authorities to set all measures inward house inward club to facilitate the emergency evacuation of the wounded. Our medical as well as surgical teams inward Republic of Cameroon as well as Republic of Chad are develop to process wounded patients.”
Jean-Clement Cabrol, Director of Operations at MSF, said: “This large-scale assault on vulnerable people who guide keep already fled from extreme violence is shocking as well as unacceptable.
“The security of civilians must endure respected.”
Major General Irabor, commander for counterinsurgency operations inward northeast Nigeria, said the Air Force had been given coordinates for where Boko Haram militants were alleged to endure meeting. He said it was unclear what had caused the error as well as that an investigation was nether way, only that the armed services would non deliberately target civilians.
Villagers inward the yesteryear guide keep reported closed to civilian casualties inward near-daily bombardments inward northeastern Nigeria.
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