Unnamed worker taken along with an Italian after gunmen raid building in north-west part of the country
A British contract worker has been kidnapped by gunmen in Nigeria.
The raiders stormed into the man's apartment on Thursday night and fled with him and an Italian worker, police said. The pair have not been named.
A police chief said a "horde of gunmen" burst into the building in Birnin Kebbi, in the north west of the country. A German colleague managed to escape by scaling a wall but a Nigerian engineer was shot and wounded, Kebbi state police chief Adamu Hassan said.
He told Nigerian media the missing pair had been working for a construction company in the state capitaland that there had not been a ransom demand. The men worked for the firm B. Stabilini and were building a bank. The firm was unavailable for comment.
The policeman said a large amount of cash in the apartment was not taken, according to the website This Day Live.
A Foreign Office spokesman said: "We are aware of reports of a missing British national. We are urgently looking into these reports."
Kidnappings in Nigeria's north-west are unusual, unlike in the country's southern delta where oil workers have routinely been kidnapped.
In September 2008 two Britons were held by the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta, while in April 2009 a Scottish oil worker was abducted and his guard killed in Port Harcourt. In January 2010 three Britons and a Colombian were kidnapped, and in November of the same year, four men from the US, Canada and France were taken while 7.5 miles offshore on the Okoro field.
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Source: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/may/14/british-contractor-kidnapped-in-nigeria
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