Five people have been killed and six injured after an attack in Mainari village, near Maiduguri, Borno State.
Assailants suspected to be insurgents stormed Mainari, a village in Konduga Local Government, some 20 kilometres South East of Maiduguri at about 7.30pm on Wednesday, shooting sporadically, local sources told Channels Television.
The shooting by suspected insurgents continued till about 8PM when the military mobilised to the area and engaged the suspected insurgents in a gunbattle.
Some members of the Civilian Joint Task Force in Konduga told reporters that corpses of the dead were identified as villagers after the attack.
No group has claimed responsibility for the attack.
