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TIME: ‘There Are No Words to Describe the Chaos’: Eyewitness Account of Bombing on Nigeria Refugee C
- SitiTalkBlog
- Jan 23, 2017
- 1 min read
Photo Credit: TIME
A Doctors Without Borders (Médecins Sans Frontières) field coordinator was in Rann when a Nigerian military jet mistakenly bombed a refugee camp while hunting Boko Haram. This is what he saw.
The first bomb fell at 12:30 p.m. and landed just a few meters away from the Red Cross office. The plane circled back around, and it dropped a second bomb five minutes later. I immediately called the rest of the team on the radio, and they reassured me that luckily none of them had been injured...
"We met up at the tents we had erected a few days earlier. Dozens of wounded began to pour in, and the flow of people continued for hours. There are no words to describe the chaos. Some people had broken bones and torn flesh; their intestines hung down to the floor. I saw the bodies of children that had been cut in two..."
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