19 People Dead At a Fake Nigerian Checkpoint.

Witnesses said suspected Boko Haram militants dressed as Nigerian soldiers killed 19 people on today Sunday at a fake checkpoint near the border in Cameroon.

Survivors and others in the scene of event said that 19 bodies, including those of two truck drivers, were recovered dead at the ambush site about 30 kilometers from the border near the town of Logumani.

The leader of a civilian vigilante group told the French News Agency his group found five of the victims shot dead, while the remaining 14 were hacked to death.

Other reports from witnesses said the killings only stopped when the attackers fled off on motorcycles after one of them received a phone call while the slaughter was in progress.

Boko Haram Islamists have been fighting since 2009 to impose a strict form of Islamic law on Nigeria's Muslim-majority in north.

The militants have been blamed for thousands of deaths & damages, and continue to launch attacks in the northeast part of Nigeria, despite an all-out government military offensive ordered by President Goodluck Jonathan in May.

Analysts said the all-out government military offensive attack has driven the militants into the remote northeast, where they appear to be regaining strength.