Suspected ýBoko Haram gunmen killed several people in a village in Nigeria’s far northeast, a local administrator said on Wednesday, in the latest attack since a supposed ceasefire was announced.

Suspected ‎Boko Haram gunmen killed several people in a village in Nigeria's far northeast, a local administrator said on Wednesday, in the latest attack since a supposed ceasefire was announced.

Heavily armed fighters in all-terrain vehicles stormed the town of Kukawa, some 180 kilometers (112 miles) from the Borno state capital, Maiduguri, and opened fire on police and a local market.

Kukawa, near Lake Chad, has been repeatedly targeted by Boko Haram, forcing Nigeria's state-run oil company to abandon prospecting and drilling.

The latest attack happened on Monday and was slow to emerge because telecommunications in Borno have been largely destroyed by five years of violence.

"They (the gunmen) killed several people, especially around the market, where traders had gone for commercial activities," the Kukawa local government chairman Modu Musa told AFP.