Gunmen Kill Nigerian, Abduct Lebanese in Kano

Gunmen have abducted a Lebanese construction worker and killed another man in Kano yesterday morning, a police official said.

The attack and abduction in the country’s second-biggest city comes amid higher than usual security as Nigeria is in the middle of an election season.

“A Lebanese attached to Triacta Construction Company was attacked,” said Haruna Abdullahi, a police spokesman.

The unidentified gunmen also shot one man, Alphonsus Ahmed, who died on his way to hospital, and another, Abdullahi Mohammed, was injured by a bullet, the spokesman said.

He added that police were combing the area looking for the suspects.

A Triacta official declined to comment.

This Day, Wednesday 13, March.

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