Boko Haram insurgents kidnapped at least 185 women and children , and killed 32 people in a raid in northeastern Nigeria this week , local officials and residents said . Gunmen in pickup trucks attacked the village of Gumsuri , just north of Chibok , on Sunday , shooting down men before herding women and children together . `` They gathered the women and children and took them away in trucks after burning most of the village with petrol bombs , '' a local government official said on condition of anonymity for fear of reprisal . News of the attack took four days to emerge because of a lack of communication . Telecommunications towers in the region had been disabled in previous attacks . Local officials learned of the attack from residents who fled to Maiduguri , the capital of Borno state , where the officials had moved a year ago to escape Boko Haram attacks . The militants stormed the village from two directions , overwhelming local vigilantes who had repelled Boko Haram attacks over the course of the year , said Gumsuri resident Umar Ari , who trekked for four days to Maiduguri . ‎ '' They destroyed almost half the village and took away 185 women , girls and boys , '' Ari said.‎ . Resident Modu Kalli said the militants fired heavy machine guns on the village and poured canisters of gasoline on houses before setting them on fire . `` We lost everything in the attack . I escaped with nothing , save the clothes I have on me , '' Kalli said . Hundreds of residents of Gumsuri continue to arrive in Maiduguri , which has been struggling to accommodate thousands of residents fleeing towns and villages overrun by Boko Haram . Cameroon : At least 116 Boko Haram fighters killed . Meanwhile , the Cameroon military says that it killed at least 116 Boko Haram fighters during a fight in northern Cameroon on Wednesday , near the border with northeastern Nigeria . The incident began when the militant group tried to attack the Cameroonian town of Amchide , military spokesman Lt. Col. Didier Badjeck said . One Cameroonian soldier was killed , and another was missing after the attack , according to a statement released by Badjeck . Boko Haram destroyed two trucks and stole a third , Badjeck said . Badjeck said the military believes its artillery also inflicted unspecified damage to Boko Haram on the Nigerian side of the border during the fight . `` Our defense forces rigorously fought back this barbaric attack , and forced the enemy to retreat , '' Cameroonian government spokesman Issa Tchiroma Bakary said . `` This terrorist group has only one objective : to spread fear and uncertainty amongst our population . But I can assure you that they will be defeated , '' Bakary said . Two months ago , the nearby area of Limani , Cameroon , was the site of a deadly clash between Boko Haram and Cameroonian forces . Eight Cameroonian soldiers and 107 Boko Haram fighters were killed during an attack by the militants that month , Cameroon state-run broadcaster CRTV reported , citing the Cameroonian defense ministry . Campaign of violence . Boko Haram has terrorized northern Nigeria regularly since 2009 , attacking police , schools , churches and civilians , and bombing government buildings . This month , at least one female Boko Haram suicide bomber killed five people in Maiduguri . Last month , suicide bombings killed nearly 180 people . More than half of the victims died in an attack on a mosque that many suspect Boko Haram was behind . The group has targeted mainstream Islam , saying that it does not represent the interests of Nigeria 's 80 million Muslims and that it perverts Islam . In April , Boko Haram militants drew international condemnation when they kidnapped more than 200 schoolgirls , many of whom they later said they sold into slavery . At least 5,000 people have died at Boko Haram 's hands , according to a U.S. Congressional Research Service report , making it one of the world 's deadliest terrorist organizations .
The Haram overruns a Nigerian village in pickup trucks , shooting at civilians . The insurgents fill houses with gasoline and set them on fire . They round up women , girls and boys and kidnap them . It takes days to get out , since telecommunications networks had been destroyed .