This handout image received courtesy of Doctors Without Border (MSF) on January 17, 2017, shows people standing next to destruction after an air force jet accidentally bombarded a camp for those displaced by Boko Haram Islamists, in Rann, northeast Nigeria. At least 52 aid workers and civilians were killed on January 17, 2017, when an air force jet accidentally bombed a camp in northeast Nigeria instead of Boko Haram militants, medical charity MSF said. / AFP PHOTO / Médecins sans Frontières (MSF) / Handout / RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE – MANDATORY CREDIT “AFP PHOTO / DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS (MSF)” – NO MARKETING NO ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS – DISTRIBUTED AS A SERVICE TO CLIENTS
ABUJA— A six-man board commissioned by the Nigerian Air Force to investigate the misfire in Rann village, Borno State, has arrived the state.
The board is chaired by Chief of Standards and Evaluation, Headquarters of the Nigerian Air Force Air Vice Marshal SallauBala-Riba.
The panel is saddled with the task of finding out issues surrounding the accidental bombing, number of casualties and the role of the flight crew in the accident.
Already, there are controversies over the number of people killed in the accidental bombing.
While the Doctors Without Borders (MSF) put the death toll at 90, the locals put the figure at over 200.
But the Chairman of Kala Balge Local Government Area of the state, where the Internal displaced persons camp is located, Mr Babagana Malarima, had on Friday, during the condolence visit of the Chief of Army Staff, Lieutenant General Tukur Buratai, said that they had buried 234 victims of the mistaken bombing.
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