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| Nigeria gunmen seize French man in Katsina | Nigeria gunmen seize French man in Katsina |
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| A group of 30 gunmen have used dynamite to force their way into a well-guarded compound in northern Nigeria and seize a French engineer, police say. | A group of 30 gunmen have used dynamite to force their way into a well-guarded compound in northern Nigeria and seize a French engineer, police say. |
| Two Nigerians were killed in the attack, said Katsina state police commissioner Abdullahi Magaji. | |
| As the unknown group fled, they attacked a police station, he said. | |
| Katsina has been relatively unscathed by months of violence in northern Nigeria carried out by Boko Haram Islamist militants. | |
| They are based in the Borno state capital, Maiduguri, while there has also been a spate of recent kidnappings in southern Nigeria. | |
| The kidnapped man worked for a French company on a wind power project in the town of Rimi, about 25km (15 miles) from Katsina city , reports the AFP news agency. | |
| A visitor and a guard were killed in the attack, while a police officer was wounded, the police commissioner said. |