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| Nigeria foreign workers abducted in Bauchi state - police | Nigeria foreign workers abducted in Bauchi state - police |
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| At least six construction workers, some of them foreigners, have been kidnapped by gunmen in northern Nigeria, officials say. | At least six construction workers, some of them foreigners, have been kidnapped by gunmen in northern Nigeria, officials say. |
| The police chief in Bauchi state told AFP news agency six staff were seized, two of them expatriates, working for Lebanese-owned firm Setraco. | The police chief in Bauchi state told AFP news agency six staff were seized, two of them expatriates, working for Lebanese-owned firm Setraco. |
| A security guard was reportedly killed. | A security guard was reportedly killed. |
| No-one has admitted the abductions but the Islamist militant group, Boko Haram, has staged a series of attacks in northern Nigeria. | No-one has admitted the abductions but the Islamist militant group, Boko Haram, has staged a series of attacks in northern Nigeria. |
| According to an Associated Press report, as many as seven foreign workers were seized. | According to an Associated Press report, as many as seven foreign workers were seized. |
| One local official told AP the workers were from the UK, Italy, Greece and Lebanon. | |
| An Italian foreign ministry spokesman told Reuters news agency that an Italian was among the workers who had been taken. | |
| However, a UK foreign office spokesman could not confirm the abduction of a British national and said inquiries were being made about the incident. | |
| Bauchi police commissioner Mohammed Ladan told AFP that the attackers had initially targeted a prison and police station in the rural town of Jamaare, some 125 miles (200km) north of the state capital, Bauchi. | |
| They then moved on to a camp belonging to Setraco, killing a guard and seizing the workers. Setraco is currently expanding a major road in the area. | |
| The state capital has itself been attacked several times by Boko Haram, which wants to impose Sharia across Nigeria. |