The terrorist group Boko Haram has been accused of killing at least 27 people in fresh attacks on two villages in Borno, close to Chibok where hundreds of schoolgirls were kidnapped last month.
Gunmen killed 10 people in the village of Shawa and a further 17 in Alagarno, police and witnesses said.
The attack on Shawa happened on Monday and that on Alagarno on Tuesday, but were only reported on Wednesday. Witnesses in Shawa said the gunmen had been on motorcycles while villagers in Alagarno said the suspected Boko Haram fighters had arrived at night, forcing many residents to flee into the bush.
The militants left the village some four hours later with stolen food and vehicles. One survivor told the BBC that every building had been torched.
On Tuesday 118 people died in a double bombing in the central city of Jos, also blamed on Boko Haram.
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