Militants have stormed a remote village in north-eastern Nigeria, killing at least 33 people and kidnapping at least 100, a survivor has told the BBC.
He said that suspected Boko Haram militants had seized young men, women and children from Gumsuri village.
Is this an indication that Boko Haram is growing? That they need more wives for their soldiers?
The attack happened on Sunday but news has only just emerged, after survivors reached the city of Maiduguri.
Meanwhile, Cameroon's army says it has killed 116 Nigerian militants who had attacked one of its bases, AFP reports.
"After killing our youths, the insurgents have taken away our wives and daughters” - Gumsuri resident.
Residents told the BBC the armed militants attacked the border town of Amchide on Wednesday, arriving in two vehicles with many others on foot. They raided the market area, setting fire to shops and more than 50 houses.
No group has said it carried out either attack but officials have blamed Nigerian-based Boko Haram militants.
More than 2,000 people have been killed in militant violence this year alone, mostly in north-eastern Nigeria, near the border with Cameroon.
Analysis: Will Ross, BBC News, Lagos
This is yet another abduction on a staggering scale - one of the worst since the Chibok girls were seized in April.
It might seem surprising that it has taken four days for news of the killings and abductions to break.
That points to just how dangerous that area of north-east Nigeria still is despite promises of a massive military deployment there.
Gumsuri is about 70km (43 miles) from Maiduguri, the state capital, but survivors had to travel hundreds of kilometres via a circuitous route to avoid areas overrun with jihadists in order to reach the city and alert people of the horrors they had witnessed.
The vigilantes in the same village has reportedly fought off Boko Haram before but this time they were overpowered.
There has been no word from the military or the government and you have to wonder whether in any other country in the world such a horrific event could take place without a single word from the authorities.
The villagers who were kidnapped were from Gumsuri. The survivor of the Gumsuri attack said that afterwards he returned to the village and helped bury 33 bodies. He said he went from house-to-house to ascertain how many people were missing.
His testimony was confirmed to BBC Hausa by a local official. Neither person wanted their names to be published.
An official told the AFP news agency that a vigilante group that had protected the village from previous attacks was overpowered.
"After killing our youths, the insurgents have taken away our wives and daughters," a resident who fled to Maiduguri told AFP.
In Cameroon, the army said vehicles from its elite battalion had been caught in an ambush on Wednesday.
"At the same time... the Amchide military base was attacked by hundreds of fighters from the sect, but the response from our defence forces was instant and appropriate," AFP quotes it as saying.
One Cameroonian soldier was killed and an officer is missing, it reports.
Who are Boko Haram?
More than 200 schoolgirls were kidnapped by the group in April
Founded in 2002
Initially focused on opposing Western education - Boko Haram means "Western education is forbidden" in the Hausa language
Launched military operations in 2009 to create Islamic state
Thousands killed, mostly in north-eastern Nigeria - also attacked police and UN headquarters in capital, Abuja
Some three million people affected
Declared terrorist group by US in 2013
Death penalty
On Wednesday a Nigerian court martial handed down death sentences to 54 soldiers who had refused to take part in an operation last August to recapture three town overrun by the militants.
The soldiers, who were found guilty of mutiny, had complained that they did not have the weapons needed to take on the jihadists.
Boko Haram has been waging an insurgency since 2009 and is seeking to create an Islamist state in north-eastern Nigeria.
Attacks have increased since three states - Borno, Adamawa and Yobe - were put under emergency rule more than 18 months ago.
The kidnapping of more than 200 schoolgirls from the town of Chibok in Borno state in April sparked international outrage.
Despite military assistance from countries such as China, France, the UK and US, the girls have not yet been rescued. Nor will they ever be, I suspect. The Jonathon government is not the least bit interested in getting the girls back, nor are they willing to allow foreign countries to put boots on Nigerian soil to help.
They are happy with the way it is. It keeps people's minds off the billions of dollars that has disappeared without any effort by the government to find it. Corruption is how the government operates in Nigeria under the guise of being a democracy.
He said that suspected Boko Haram militants had seized young men, women and children from Gumsuri village.
Is this an indication that Boko Haram is growing? That they need more wives for their soldiers?
The attack happened on Sunday but news has only just emerged, after survivors reached the city of Maiduguri.
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| Cameroon Army - much better equipped and much more successful in combating Boko Haram than the hapless Nigerian military |
"After killing our youths, the insurgents have taken away our wives and daughters” - Gumsuri resident.
Residents told the BBC the armed militants attacked the border town of Amchide on Wednesday, arriving in two vehicles with many others on foot. They raided the market area, setting fire to shops and more than 50 houses.
No group has said it carried out either attack but officials have blamed Nigerian-based Boko Haram militants.
More than 2,000 people have been killed in militant violence this year alone, mostly in north-eastern Nigeria, near the border with Cameroon.
Analysis: Will Ross, BBC News, Lagos
This is yet another abduction on a staggering scale - one of the worst since the Chibok girls were seized in April.
It might seem surprising that it has taken four days for news of the killings and abductions to break.
That points to just how dangerous that area of north-east Nigeria still is despite promises of a massive military deployment there.
Gumsuri is about 70km (43 miles) from Maiduguri, the state capital, but survivors had to travel hundreds of kilometres via a circuitous route to avoid areas overrun with jihadists in order to reach the city and alert people of the horrors they had witnessed.
The vigilantes in the same village has reportedly fought off Boko Haram before but this time they were overpowered.
There has been no word from the military or the government and you have to wonder whether in any other country in the world such a horrific event could take place without a single word from the authorities.
The villagers who were kidnapped were from Gumsuri. The survivor of the Gumsuri attack said that afterwards he returned to the village and helped bury 33 bodies. He said he went from house-to-house to ascertain how many people were missing.
His testimony was confirmed to BBC Hausa by a local official. Neither person wanted their names to be published.
An official told the AFP news agency that a vigilante group that had protected the village from previous attacks was overpowered.
"After killing our youths, the insurgents have taken away our wives and daughters," a resident who fled to Maiduguri told AFP.
In Cameroon, the army said vehicles from its elite battalion had been caught in an ambush on Wednesday.
"At the same time... the Amchide military base was attacked by hundreds of fighters from the sect, but the response from our defence forces was instant and appropriate," AFP quotes it as saying.
One Cameroonian soldier was killed and an officer is missing, it reports.
Who are Boko Haram?
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| A screen grab taken on 12 May 2014 from a Boko Haram video showing the girls kidnapped from Chibok, Nigeria |
Founded in 2002
Initially focused on opposing Western education - Boko Haram means "Western education is forbidden" in the Hausa language
Launched military operations in 2009 to create Islamic state
Thousands killed, mostly in north-eastern Nigeria - also attacked police and UN headquarters in capital, Abuja
Some three million people affected
Declared terrorist group by US in 2013
 |
| Boko Haram militants with leader Abubakar Shekau in the middle |
On Wednesday a Nigerian court martial handed down death sentences to 54 soldiers who had refused to take part in an operation last August to recapture three town overrun by the militants.
The soldiers, who were found guilty of mutiny, had complained that they did not have the weapons needed to take on the jihadists.
Boko Haram has been waging an insurgency since 2009 and is seeking to create an Islamist state in north-eastern Nigeria.
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| Court Martial in Abuja. 2 Oct 2014 |
The kidnapping of more than 200 schoolgirls from the town of Chibok in Borno state in April sparked international outrage.
Despite military assistance from countries such as China, France, the UK and US, the girls have not yet been rescued. Nor will they ever be, I suspect. The Jonathon government is not the least bit interested in getting the girls back, nor are they willing to allow foreign countries to put boots on Nigerian soil to help.
They are happy with the way it is. It keeps people's minds off the billions of dollars that has disappeared without any effort by the government to find it. Corruption is how the government operates in Nigeria under the guise of being a democracy.
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