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Cholera kills 33 in Burundi refugee camp in Tanzania

by Reuters
Wednesday, 20 May 2015 16:00 GMT

Burundian refugees sit on their belongings at the Lake Tanganyika stadium in Kigoma western Tanzania, May 19, 2015, as they wait to be transported to the Nyarugusu camp. REUTERS/Thomas Mukoya

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DAR ES SALAAM, May 20 (Reuters) - A cholera outbreak at a refugee camp sheltering thousands of Burundian refugees in northwest Tanzania has killed at least 33 people, a Tanzanian regional health official said on Wednesday.

"The number of Burundi refugees who have died from the cholera outbreak has now reached 33," Leonard Subi, a medical officer in the nearby town of Kigoma, told Reuters.

(Reporting by Fumbuka Ng'wanakilala; Writing by George Obulutsa; Editing by Ed Cropley)

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