AN Islamist group, which declared itself independent from Boko Haram,
Ansaru, has said on Saturday that it had killed seven foreign hostages
it seized on February 7 from a construction company in Jama’are town of
Bauchi State, SITE Monitoring Service said.
According to the online news source, Reuters, the group issued a
statement in Arabic and English on an affiliate of the Sinam al-Islam
network accompanied by screen shots of a video purporting to show the
dead hostages, SITE said. One screen shot showed a man with a gun
standing above several prone figures lying on the ground.
Ansaru, which had kidnapped other foreigners in the past, had blasted
into the compound housing the foreigners who were workers with SETRACO
construction company, using explosives and ended up killing a security
man while it also abducted a Briton, an Italian, a Greek and four
Lebanese workers, the largest number of foreigners kidnapped in the
mostly Muslim North since an insurgency by Islamist militants
intensified two years ago.
The group had, after the kidnapping in February, announced that its
action was “based on the transgression and atrocities done to the
religion of Allah by the European countries in many places such as
Afghanistan and Mali.
Following the kidnapping, the British and Nigerian governments, it
was learnt, were working on how to free the hostages; a development
which the group said made it decide to kill the hostages.
The group whose full name, Jama’atu Ansarul Musilimina Fi Biladis
Sudan, roughly translates as “vanguards for the protection of Muslims in
Black Africa,” in addition to the dreaded Boko Haram sect, had
continued to hold the Northern part of the country to ransom since 2009.
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