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UPDATE 1-Up to 65,000 people on run in northeast Nigeria after attack -U.N.

Published 16/04/2021, 11:22
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GENEVA, April 16 (Reuters) - Up to 65,000 people in
northeastern Nigeria have fled their homes after an assault by
armed groups on a border town on Wednesday, while attacks that
appear to be targeted have forced a temporary halt to aid
operations, U.N. agencies said.
Local officials and a resident said on Wednesday that at
least eight people had been killed in the attack on Damasak by
suspected Islamists, and that hundreds had fled across the
border to Niger, a few kilometres away.
"Following the latest attack on Wednesday 14 April, the
third in just seven days, up to 80 per cent of the town's
population -- which includes the local community and internally
displaced people -- were forced to flee," Babar Baloch of the
U.N. refugee agency UNHCR, told a Geneva briefing.
Jens Laerke, spokesman for the U.N. Office for the
Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) told the same
briefing that aid operations had been temporarily suspended.
"The situation on the ground is extremely critical and if
this continues it will be impossible, maybe for longer periods
of time, for us to deliver aid to those who desperately need
it," he said.
Laerke added that humanitarian workers appeared to be
targets, amid reports of house-to-house searches for aid workers
and the burning of their offices. UNHCR has relocated its staff
from Damasak town due to the risks, Baloch said.

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