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Nigeria: Briton, Italian killed before rescue

March 15, 2012 by IndepthAfrica

Abuja – The Briton and Italian kidnapped in Nigeria were abducted by a splinter cell of a radical Islamist sect and executed before a failed commando rescue operation, the nation’s secret police said on Wednesday. Nigeria’s secretive State Security Service … read more »

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UK hostage threatened with execution

December 7, 2011 by IndepthAfrica

Nouakchott – Masked gunmen threatened to execute a British hostage kidnapped in Nigeria if their demands are not met, in a video received by a Mauritanian news agency and seen by AFP. The footage was sent on December 1 to … read more »

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Briton, Italian kidnapped in northwestern Nigeria

May 13, 2011 by benim

Gunmen have kidnapped a Briton and an Italian working for a construction firm in northern Nigeria after storming their apartment, police said on Friday, but a ransom had not been demanded. A German colleague managed to escape by scaling a … read more »

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