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100 Huts Burnt in Lira

The Monitor (Kampala)
NEWS
January 20, 2005
Posted to the web January 19, 2005

By Hudson Apunyo
Lira
Over 100 households at Aler Internally Displaced People's (IDP) camp in Ogur
sub-county, are in urgent need of humanitarian assistance after their huts were
burnt on Wednesday.
The victims, mostly women and children are sleeping in the open without
clothing as all their property got burnt in the huts. Ms Jenty Akullo, 50, a
widow and mother of eight said she had gone to look for food for her children
only to find her hut burnt.
She said she was more worried about her children's books that were burnt in the
hut.
The camp leader, Mr Emmanuel Ogweng, said a six-year-old child who was left to
cook caused the fire outbreak.
When The Monitor visited the camp on Saturday, the women and children were
trying to rebuild the huts.

   

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