Children sick from foul water in West Darfur camp
Six basic school students of camp Murnei for internally displaced people in Kereinik locality, West Darfur, have become ill on Sunday as a result of drinking water believed to be poisoned. One of the camp sheikhs told Radio Dabanga the six children had went out to collect wood south of the camp. They were poisoned after drinking water from a tin. They have been transferred to a hospital in Murnei. “The Murnei camp population, consisting of 127,000 people, has suffered from a severe lack of water for three months by now,” the head of the Murnei camp elders told Radio Dabanga last May. Camp residents had to drink unclean water collected from sites about two to three kilometres away from the camp. File photo: Child drinking water Related: Acute drinking water crisis in West Darfur’s Murnei camp (15 May 2014)
Six basic school students of camp Murnei for internally displaced people in Kereinik locality, West Darfur, have become ill on Sunday as a result of drinking water believed to be poisoned.
One of the camp sheikhs told Radio Dabanga the six children had went out to collect wood south of the camp. They were poisoned after drinking water from a tin. They have been transferred to a hospital in Murnei.
“The Murnei camp population, consisting of 127,000 people, has suffered from a severe lack of water for three months by now,” the head of the Murnei camp elders told Radio Dabanga last May. Camp residents had to drink unclean water collected from sites about two to three kilometres away from the camp.
File photo: Child drinking water
Related: Acute drinking water crisis in West Darfur’s Murnei camp (15 May 2014)
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