Kano: A German engineer kidnapped in northern Nigeria about five months ago has been killed during a failed rescue attempt in Kano, a metropolitan in Nigeria, media reported on Thursday.
Gunmen kidnapped Raupach in January from Kano, Nigeria’s second-largest city, where he worked for Dantata & Sawoe Construction Company.
According to reports Kano state police Commissioner Philemon Ibrahim Leha said that the attempted operation to free Edgar Fritz Raupach took place in the early hours of Thursday in the state capital of Kano, but did not immediately provide further details.
A military official told the AP news agency that five people, including a woman, were killed in the operation to free Raupach.
It was unclear whether Raupach was killed before or during the rescue operation.
In Berlin, a Foreign Ministry spokeswoman said that the ministry could not currently confirm that the hostage had been killed, and that the ministry’s crisis unit and the German embassy in Abuja were working to clarify the situation.
Police said his abductors had taken him from a construction site.
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