Gunmen shot dead two Chinese construction workers in a town in Nigeria’s volatile northeast on Wednesday, police and company officials said, the latest such killing in the region in recent weeks.
“It was around 10.30am, some unknown gunmen trailed them to the yard and opened fire, killing two Chinese engineers,” an official with the Chinese Civil Engineering Construction Corporation said.
“I received report of an attack on some Chinese construction workers in Benishek this morning. I am still awaiting details of the attack,” Borbo State police commissioner Yuguda Abdullahi said.
The company official said four Chinese engineers had arrived at the Benishek site from their base in nearby Damaturu early Wednesday before the attack.
“This morning four of our engineers left their base in Damaturu and arrived our yard in Benishek with the intention of taking along some construction workers to different sites where they were working,” he said.
He said two of them were killed while the other two fled.
“The attackers took away one of our company vehicles,” he said, adding that it was the second such attack in recent weeks.