Boko Haram militants have killed dozens of people in fresh attacks on villages in Borno state in northern Nigeria, the BBC has learnt.
In one attack, gunmen reportedly fired on a crowd in a church compound.
Boko Haram has waged an increasingly bloody insurgency since 2009 to create an Islamic state in Nigeria.
The latest attacks come as the Nigerian army has denied reports that several generals have been found guilty of aiding Boko Haram in their insurgency.
Nigerian media reported on Tuesday that 10 generals and five other senior military officers had been tried before a court martial for supplying arms and information to the militant group.
However, a military spokesman called the reports “falsehoods”, BBC informs.
