Kano , Nigeria ( CNN ) -- Scores of residents in four villages in the northeastern Borno state of Nigeria , near the border with Cameroon , were killed Tuesday in Boko Haram raids , a lawmaker and residents said . They said hundreds of homes were destroyed . Heavily armed gunmen dressed as soldiers in all-terrain vehicles and on motorcycles attacked Goshe , Attagara , Agapalwa and Aganjara villages in Gwoza district , shooting residents and burning homes . Villagers fled into neighboring Cameroon to escape the onslaughts , said Peter Biye , a lawmaker from the area who serves in the Nigerian lower parliament .
Lawmaker and residents say scores are dead , hundreds of homes destroyed . They say Boko Haram conducted the raids in northeastern state of Borno . Score: 7