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Nigeria air strike error: Eyewitness relieves horror

The aftermath of the bombing at a camp for internally displaced persons in Rann, Nigeria


In a BBC talk with, Alfred Davies, a MSF help laborer, soothes the loathsomeness of the current week's wrong bombarding by the Nigerian military of a camp for inside uprooted individuals in Rann, in which more than 70 individuals - including ladies and youngsters - were slaughtered and numerous more injured.

Nigeria's military has conceded that the assault was proposed to target Boko Haram aggressors in the north-eastern town.

Alfred Davies says he and his little group were giving measles immunization and giving sustenance in a camp tent - when the principal bomb detonated around 300m (980ft) from them.

"We had more than 100 individuals in the line... holding up to get their provisions: babies, moms... Everybody went on the ground in the wake of listening to the sound of the bomb... furthermore, everybody was unnerved.

"There was disarray, mayhem all over the place," he included, that "individuals didn't know where to go and what was occurring."

Alfred Davies (centre)Image copyrightMSF

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Alfred Davies (focus) has been working for MSF for a long time

Around five minutes after the fact, Mr Davies says, the second bomb hit - around 20m from where the first fell.

Colleagues to where the bombs detonated then radioed him to tell that there were many injured landing for treatment in their tents.

Now, reviews the accomplished venture co-ordinator from Liberia, he requested to change the methodology "from dispersion to mass loss reaction".

"Also, promptly we began to treat individuals. In one hour we had 52 individuals," he says.

In one place, he recalls, there were 20 individuals laying on the ground "in a terrible condition: tummies open, digestion systems on the floor... it was shocking. What's more, these individuals were stating: 'Help me, specialist! Will you help me?'

"Injured individuals continued coming," Mr Davies keeps, including that soon "our tents were full".

"Some of them passed on in our tents.

"You're in a total mess - who would it be a good idea for you to treat first?

"It was shocking to leave somebody who was in less torment and treat the all the more truly injured, yet one needed to settle on the decision," he concedes.

"There were individuals who were draining bountifully. Everything we could do right then and there was to put on swathes to cover wounds, until a specialist arrived.

"Yes, I saw dead youngsters. I saw insides of the dead youngsters on the floor," Mr Davies reviews.

He says that one of the casualties was a lady who had been immunized quite recently before the assault.

"We had offered supplies to a lady with her infant twins and she was grinning, demonstrating to us her children.

"Furthermore, (later) we saw this lady dead, with her twins sitting alongside her... they were crying and touching their mom, and there was no reaction. They are vagrants."

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