Survivors, according to an online news medium, Premium Times, said the insurgents stormed Dile village at 2 a.m. in several vehicles, burning houses and killing anybody in sight.
Ibrahim Usman, a resident who fled to Mubi, said 20 persons were feared killed in the village and many others sustained injuries during the attack.
“Dozens of Boko Haram fighters attacked our village at about 2a.m. and killed 20 people,” Usman said.
“Many of us fled to the bush to avoid being killed. Everybody was running for his life. We don’t know the whereabouts of our family members.”
