At least 45 people were killed by suspected Boko Haram militants at dawn on Tuesday in a remote village in Nigeria’s northeastern Borno state, military sources and authorized vigilante groups said yesterday.

The insurgents started shooting into houses in Njaba about 5:30 a.m., a military source said yesterday. The village is close to the town of Damboa and about 60 miles south of state capital Maiduguri.

Boko Haram’s six-year insurgency to carve out a state in northeastern Nigeria has killed thousands and displaced more than 1.5 million people.