Nearly 20 suspected Boko Haram gunmen opened fire on market vendors in Nigeria , killing 15 people in Borno state , witnesses say . They also burned a local traders market , several homes and a church , said residents who survived the Sunday attack on the remote Christian village of Daku in the district of Askira Uba . This is the latest raid in northeast Borno state near Chibok , where militants from the Islamist group shocked the world when they kidnapped nearly 300 Nigerian schoolgirls two months ago . `` The gunmen looted food items and money left by traders while fleeing the attack , '' eyewitness and resident Andrew Musa said of Sunday 's violence . `` They pursued people who attempted to flee into nearby bushes and shot them . '' `` We recovered 15 bodies from the bushes after the attack , including that of the village chief , '' he added . In neighboring Yobe state on Sunday , gunmen on motorcycles stormed a mosque in Gumsa village during prayers and abducted the local chief , residents said . `` The gunmen burned the police station and a telecommunications mast in the village before fleeing into the bush with the chief , '' resident Kaka Bunu said . Boko Haram has terrorized Nigeria 's Borno state in recent years , in an effort to create an Islamic state .
Attackers kill 15 people in Borno state , abduct village chief in Yobe state , residents say . In Borno state in April , Boko Haram abducted nearly 300 schoolgirls , who remain missing . Comment: