375 Killed by Cholera at Camp for Refugees
Associated Press
GENEVA —
A cholera outbreak at a U.N. refugee camp in Somalia has killed at least 375 people in three days, most of them children, a spokesman for the Office of the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees said Tuesday.
The official, Leon Davico, said that a total of 481 cases had been diagnosed by the beginning of this week at the Gannet camp, which shelters 45,000 Ethiopians who fled famine in their country. He said several cases have also been detected at a nearby camp.
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