Four aid workers have been killed in a Boko Haram attack in Rann, Borno State.
They were killed when the terrorists struck at a camp housing Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) injuring some of them in the process.
The attack happened “after dark” outside a camp housing some 55,000 people displaced by the conflict and appeared to target the military, said UN spokeswoman Samantha Newport told AFP.
“Four aid workers were killed, one aid worker was injured and one aid worker is missing, feared abducted.
“Of the aid workers that were killed, two worked for the IOM (International Organisation for Migration) in camp management; and one was a medical doctor working as a third party consultant for UNICEF,” the UN children’s agency, she said.
A civilian militia source in Rann, which is some 175 kilometres (110 miles) from the Borno state capital of Maiduguri, and a senior military source gave AFP an identical death toll.
They also said eight soldiers were killed in the attack but there was no immediate official confirmation.
No details were immediately available for the fourth but Newport said the injured and missing were both women adding that all those involved were Nigerian.
