警方正在搜寻其他伤亡者，官员警告实际死亡人数可能进一步上升。
Police are searching for other casualties, with officials warning the actual death toll could rise further.
蒂莫西·奥比埃祖、帕特里克·杰克逊报道 据警方称，不明身份的枪手袭击了尼日利亚东北部塔拉巴州的一个偏远村庄，造成至少10人死亡，洗劫商铺并纵火焚烧房屋。
By Timothy Obiezu, Patrick Jackson Unknown gunmen have raided a remote village in the northeast Nigerian state of Taraba, killing at least 10 people, looting shops and setting houses ablaze, police say.
人们担心实际死亡人数要高得多，目击者称有20人丧生，一家非政府组织则表示死亡人数可能高达50人。
There are fears the actual death toll is much higher, with eyewitnesses speaking of 20 lives lost and a non-governmental organisation suggesting a toll of as many as 50.
据报道，枪手骑着摩托车于周五午间穆斯林祷告结束后不久，突袭了卡里姆拉米多地区的宾纳里村，暴行持续长达四小时。
The gunmen reportedly swooped on the village of Binnari in the Karim Lamido area mounted on motorcycles just after midday Muslim prayers on Friday in a rampage that went on for up to four hours.
警方表示，他们正在丛林中搜寻其他伤亡者，但当局被国际特赦组织指责未能保护农村社区。
Police say they are searching for other casualties in the bush but the authorities were accused by Amnesty International of failing to protect rural communities.
尼日利亚继续面临多个地区武装团体的袭击，包括西北部、东北部和中部地区。
Nigeria continues to face attacks by armed groups across several regions, including the northwest, northeast and central regions.
该国还在应对东北部持续近二十年的圣战叛乱，政府对不安全局势的处理方式招致持续批评。
The country is also battling a jihadist insurgency in its northeast that has lasted nearly two decades, drawing persistent criticism of the government's handling of insecurity.
发生最新袭击事件后，警方称在回应求救电话后发现了10具带有枪伤的尸体。
Following the latest incident, police said they recovered 10 bodies with gunshot wounds after officers responded to a distress call.
警方周六对英国广播公司（BBC）新闻表示，袭击者在警方到达前已逃离，但他们继续在该地区巡逻以恢复秩序。
The attackers had fled by the time they arrived but they continued to patrol the area to restore calm, they told BBC News on Saturday.
“我们成功驱散了不明身份的枪手，尽管双方都没有人员伤亡，因为地形困难，且他们熟悉地形，”警方助理总监维克托·姆谢利扎说。
"We were able to disperse the unknown gunmen though there was no casualty on their side and ours because the terrain is difficult and they're used to the terrain," Assistant Superintendent of Police Victor Mshelizah said.
他补充说，警方正继续搜寻附近丛林中可能被杀害或受伤的人员，并警告死亡人数仍可能上升。
He added that officers were continuing to search the bush nearby for people who might have been killed or wounded, and warned the death toll could still rise.
社区领袖马拉姆·阿布巴卡尔·赛福拉希对法新社表示，袭击者乘坐约50辆摩托车到达，每辆车两人。
Speaking to AFP news agency, community leader Malam Abubakar Saifullahi said the attackers had arrived on about 50 motorcycles, two men apiece.
“他们洗劫商铺，抢走现金、食品和其他物资，”他说。“他们还带走了人们逃离袭击时遗弃的摩托车。”接受法新社采访的幸存者称，他们已清点出至少20人死亡。
"They looted shops and took cash, foodstuffs and other provisions," he said. "They also took motorcycles abandoned by people fleeing the attack." Survivors who spoke to AFP said they had counted at least 20 dead.
“人们朝不同方向奔跑以躲避袭击，”宾纳里居民伊西亚库·穆萨说。“没人知道去哪里才安全。”另一名幸存者赛杜·努胡表示，仍有人下落不明。
"People were running in different directions to escape the attack," Binnari resident Isiyaku Musa said. "Nobody knew where it was safe to go." Another survivor, Sa'idu Nuhu, said that some people were still missing.
国际特赦组织尼日利亚分部主任伊萨·萨努西周六对BBC新闻表示，该非政府组织已与部分丧亲家属交谈，对方称死亡人数高达50人。“最初的葬礼有37人，”他说。
Amnesty's Nigeria director, Isa Sanusi, told BBC News on Saturday that the NGO had spoken to some of the bereaved families who said up to 50 people had died. "The initial funeral had 37 people," he said.
萨努西呼吁对杀戮进行公正调查，指责当局将农村社区置于“反复作恶却逍遥法外的枪手的摆布之下”。访问 BBCAfrica.com 获取更多非洲大陆新闻。
Sanusi called for an impartial investigation into the killings, accusing the authorities of leaving rural communities "at the mercy of gunmen that are repeatedly commit atrocities with impunity". Go to BBCAfrica.com for more news from the African continent.
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