Gunmen in Nigeria’s Northeast Kidnap Seven Foreign Workers

Gunmen kidnapped seven foreign workers and killed a security guard at a construction company in Nigeria’s northeastern Bauchi state late yesterday, police said.

The hostages include four Lebanese, a U.K. national, a Greek and an Italian, Hassan Mohammed, a police spokesman, said today by phone from Bauchi, the state capital. They work for Setraco Nigeria Ltd., he said. The gunmen were repelled when they tried to attack a local police station, he said.