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dipsydoodle

(42,239 posts) Sat Mar 9, 2013, 02:58 PM Mar 2013

Diplomats check reports of Nigeria hostages' deaths

Source: BBC News

Diplomats are investigating claims that seven foreign hostages seized last month in Nigeria have been killed.

A statement posted on the internet from Nigerian militant group Ansaru said it had killed the hostages.

The hostages - from Britain, Greece, Italy and Lebanon - were seized in the northern state of Bauchi.

Ansaru, which emerged last year, is suspected of being an offshoot of the Boko Haram Islamist network.

Read more: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-21726993

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1. Italy and Greece confirm hostages killed in Nigeria

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Sun Mar 10, 2013, 01:23 PM

Mar 2013

Source: Reuters

Italy and Greece confirm hostages killed in Nigeria

By Gavin Jones and Renee Maltezou
ROME/ATHENS | Sun Mar 10, 2013 1:12pm EDT

(Reuters) - Seven foreign hostages kidnapped last month by a Nigerian Islamist group from a construction firm's compound have been killed, the Italian and Greek Foreign Ministries said on Sunday.

Al Qaeda-affiliated group Ansaru said on Saturday it had killed the hostages seized on February 7 in the northern state of Bauchi because of attempts by Nigerian and British forces to free them.

It published grainy photos purporting to show the bodies of a Briton, an Italian, a Greek and four Lebanese workers snatched from the Lebanese firm Setraco.

Foreign governments had not been able to confirm the killings until Sunday. Italy and Greece denied any attempt to rescue them had been made by any of the governments involved. Nigeria had no confirmation of the killings.

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