No fewer than 19 people have reportedly died in a Boko Haram terrorists attack on a Borno village.

According to reports, the terrorists in the early hours of Sunday attacked the village of Mailari in the Guzamala region of Borno state.

Survivors claimed the attackers came around 2 a.m.

Reuters, which quoted one survivor, Abatcha Umar, said he had not been able to tell whether they belonged to Boko Haram or Islamic State in West Africa, ISWA.

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Umar said he had counted 19 people killed, including his younger brother. An aid worker at a camp that received the survivors, and who declined to be identified, put the death toll at 63.

The Islamist militants had been spotted around the village three days before their attack, said Umar. Locals had warned Nigerian troops stationed in the nearby town of Gudumbali, but no action was taken, he said.

The aid worker said hundreds of people from villages in the area had fled to the camp for displaced people where he worked, in Monguno.