Gunmen abduct Lebanese worker, kill one in NW Nigeria: police vanguardngr.com vanguardnews
Four gunmen stormed a road construction site in the city at about 7:40 am , seizing the engineer who was supervising work on the site.“There was a kidnapping incident at Dangi Roundabout this morning and the victim is a Lebanese engineer,” Kano state police spokesman Abdullahi Haruna told AFP.
Kidnapping for ransom is widespread in the oil-rich southern delta region, where criminal gangs seize expatriate oil workers and wealthy Nigerians in exchange for hefty payments. In April last year gunmen kidnapped a German construction engineer in Kano after killing his police escort in an attack the police blamed on a gang of armed robbers.
The gangs often roam on motorcycles and are known to operate in northern Kaduna and neighbouring Zamfara states.
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