More than 60 women and children have been abducted in northern Nigeria by suspected militant Islamists, residents and officials say.
The abductions are said to have taken place during a series of raids over the past week on villages in Borno state.
Dozens of people were killed in the attacks, and people have been fleeing the villages, a BBC reporter says.
The Islamist group Boko Haram is still holding more than 200 girls it captured in Borno's Chibok town on 14 April.
Boko Haram is demanding the release of its fighters and their relatives, in exchange for the girls. The government has rejected this.
BBC Nigeria correspondent Will Ross says the latest abductions do not come as a surprise.
Many remote villages in north-eastern Nigeria are extremely insecure and when Boko Haram fighters attack, they often spend hours looting and killing, he says.
The abductions took place in the Damboa area, close to Maiduguri, the capital of Borno State and the headquarters of Boko Haram until it was forced out by the military and vigilante groups.
Kummabza was just one of the villages targeted, our correspondent says.
A senior officer in the Damboa local authority told AFP news agency that more than 60 people had been "hijacked and forcefully taken away".
"The village [Kummabza] was also destroyed," the unnamed officer is quoted as saying.
He said some of the survivors, including women and children, fled on foot to Lassa, about 25km (16 miles) away.
"Others went to Gulak in Adamawa state, where they are now taking refuge," the officer is quoted as saying.
Who are Boko Haram?
- Founded in 2002
- Initially focused on opposing Western education - Boko Haram means "Western education is forbidden" in the Hausa language
- Launched military operations in 2009 to create Islamic state
- Thousands killed, mostly in north-eastern Nigeria - but also attacks on police and UN headquarters in capital, Abuja
- Some three million people affected
- Declared terrorist group by US in 2013
Who are Boko Haram?
Profile: Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shekau
Why Nigeria has not defeated Boko Haram
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