Police in Taraba state said unknown gunmen raided the village of Binnari in northeast Nigeria on Friday, killing at least 10 people, looting shops and setting houses ablaze, the BBC reported.

Police said they recovered 10 bodies with gunshot wounds and warned the death toll could still rise as officers kept searching the nearby bush. Survivors who spoke to Agence France-Presse (AFP) said they had counted at least 20 dead. Amnesty International's Nigeria director, Isa Sanusi, told the BBC that bereaved families the organisation spoke to said up to 50 people had died, and that the initial funeral had 37 people.