The attack and abduction in the country's second-biggest city comes amid higher than usual security as Nigeria is in the middle of an election season.
Gunmen in Nigeria abducted a Lebanese construction worker and killed another man in the northern city of Kano on Tuesday morning, a police official said.
The attack and abduction in the country's second-biggest city comes amid higher than usual security as Nigeria is in the middle of an election season. "A Lebanese attached to Triacta construction company was attacked," said Haruna Abdullahi, a police spokesman. The unidentified gunmen also shot one man, Alphonsus Ahmed, who died on his way to hospital, and another, Abdullahi Mohammed, was injured by a bullet, the spokesman said.
He added that police were combing the area looking for the suspects. A Triacta official declined to comment.
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