Kano , Nigeria ( CNN ) Suspected Boko Haram gunmen decapitated 23 people in a raid on Buratai village in northeast Nigeria 's Borno state , residents and a politician said Saturday . Scores of attackers invaded the village at 11 p.m. Friday when residents were mostly asleep and set homes on fire , hacking residents who tried to flee . `` ‎The gunmen slaughtered their 23 victims like rams and decapitated them . They injured several people , '' said Ibrahim Adamu , a local politician who fled . `` They burned a large part of the village and we are afraid some residents were burnt in the homes because most people had gone to bed when the gunmen struck , '' said Adamu , a ward councilor in the village . A paramedic ‎at a government hospital in the nearby town of Biu said 32 people from Buratai were taken to the hospital with gunshot wounds and burns . `` The injured victims said a lot of people were beheaded by the attackers , '' the paramedic said . Buratai now has been attacked twice by Boko Haram in the past year . In September , the Islamist insurgents launched an attack on the village that was repelled by soldiers deployed to guard the home of a Nigerian army general from the village . The soldiers killed 20 of the gunmen . It is not clear whether the attack was in reprisal over their loss in the previous attack or was linked to the Nigeria general elections ‎that commenced Saturday . Boko Haram vowed to disrupt the elections . The militant group ISIS earlier this month said that a pledge of allegiance from Boko Haram has been accepted .
unidentified militants attacked village in Nigeria . Residents describe horrible details .