German killed as pirates hijack gunboat in Delta State, Nigeria Gunmen killed a German man and kidnapped a second in southwest Nigeria, police said Tuesday as the military reported that pirates in the oil-rich south hijacked a police gunboat and killed three officers. Armed men attacked a group of workers for Julius Berger Nigeria Construction Company as they were being driven to work in southwest Ogun state on Friday, police Assistant Superintendent Abimbola Oyeyemi told The Associated Press. One German was shot and killed in the attack and we are working 24 hours round the clock to free the abducted German and arrest the criminals, he said. Another German national has been kidnapped in northern Nigeria, German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier told a news conference in Abuja, the Nigerian capital, on Monday. There is no new information at the moment on that case, he said. Kidnappings in the north usually are carried out by Boko Haram Islamic extremists or a breakaway group called Ansaru. Foreign hostages generally are released unharmed once a ransom is paid...read more tarsiermagazine/german-killed-as-pirates-hijack-gunboat-in-delta-state-nigeria/
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