{"id":6240,"date":"2013-07-09T19:25:21","date_gmt":"2013-07-09T19:25:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/disnaija.com\/nigeria-news\/abducted-setraco-worker-lebanese-not-israeli\/"},"modified":"2013-07-09T19:25:21","modified_gmt":"2013-07-09T19:25:21","slug":"abducted-setraco-worker-lebanese-not-israeli","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/disnaija.com\/abducted-setraco-worker-lebanese-not-israeli\/","title":{"rendered":"Abducted SETRACO worker Lebanese, not Israeli"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Nigerian police in Edo state said the expatriate worker of SETRACO construction company kidnapped yesterday was not an Israeli but a Lebanese.<\/p>\n

Gunmen had kidnapped the man from a construction site in Benin, where abductions for ransom occur frequently, authorities said on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

According to police spokesman Moses Eguavoen: “The incident happened yesterday at about 10:00 am, and the police have commenced investigation.”<\/p>\n

He said he could not confirm initial reports that at least one soldier guarding the workers had been wounded or killed. A military spokesman in Edo state could not be reached.<\/p>\n

A Setraco spokesman identified the victim as Sani Youssef and said he was not aware of a ransom being demanded.<\/p>\n

It was unclear who was behind the attack.<\/p>\n

Ransom kidnappings occur regularly in southern Nigeria, with victims usually released unharmed after payments are made, unlike in the country’s north, where Islamist extremists have killed a number of their hostages.<\/p>\n

In February, two Lebanese were abducted along with two Syrians, a Greek, an Italian and a Briton from another Setraco site in the northern Nigerian state of Bauchi.<\/p>\n

Islamist extremist group Ansaru later posted a video and a statement online announcing the hostages had been killed.<\/p>\n

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