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

This attack is the worst ever of foreigners being kidnapped in the north of Nigeria. Kidnappings for occasionally occur in the south, especially in the areas that the country's oil industry. Violence in the north has been of the nature of attacking churches and police stations, and kidnapping . No one has yet taken responsibility for yesterday's , but security believe one of northern Nigeria's Islamist groups is it. The Al Qaeda splinter group Ansaru has been active in months. The larger group Boko Haram, which means 'Western education is ,' has been the most active in the area. It is reportedly for hundreds of deaths, and church bombings.

 


 
 

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