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Armed attackers eight foreign workers in northern Nigeria on Sunday. The abductees were from the residential compound of a Lebanese construction company. A security guard was as he tried to the assailants from the camp. The kidnapped workers are to be from Britain, Greece, Italy and Lebanon. A woman and her daughter are among them. A local government official, Adamu Aliyu, the attack at 2:15am. The gunmen also attacked a police station and a prison on their way to the compound. A police chief said: "We the attack...but they two vehicles."

This attack is the worst ever case of foreigners kidnapped in the north of Nigeria. Kidnappings for ransom occasionally in the south, especially in the areas that the country's oil industry. Violence in the north has largely of the nature of churches and police stations, and locals. No one has yet responsibility for yesterday's raid, but security experts one of northern Nigeria's Islamist groups is behind it. The Al Qaeda splinter group Ansaru has been active in recent months. The larger group Boko Haram, which 'Western education is forbidden,' has been the most active in the area. It is reportedly responsible for hundreds of deaths, and church bombings.

 


 
 

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