Eight people died at the Mbawa Internally Displaced Persons camp in Benue between January and this month of May.
Torgenga said that the latest death at the camp was recorded last weekend and that the body of the deceased was still in the morgue. He said that 3,515 IDPs were currently residing at the camp and that they had lived in the camp for more than one year. He disclosed that a three-year-old boy, identified as Nani Iyorkaa, who went to fetch firewood had been missing since last March.
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