Suspected Boko Haram militants killed 24 people in two separate attacks, eyewitnesses said on Saturday, just as the military vowed to ramp up security over Christmas.
Seven fishermen were ambushed and killed in the first attack in Baga, a fishing community on Lake Chad in Borno state, one of three in the northeast of the country under emergency rule since May this year.
Seventeen people died in a separate attack on Thursday, other eyewitnesses said, when gunmen in pick-up trucks torched more than 100 shops and vehicles in the Sabon Gari area of the Damboa district, 90 kilometres (56 miles) from the state capital, Maiduguri.
There was no immediate confirmation of either attack from the military or local authorities.
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