Failed rescue: German hostage killed in Kano

ABDUCTORS of a German engineer on Thursday, in Kano, shot and killed the expatriate during a rescue mission spearheaded by men of the Joint Task Force on anti-terrorism.

The murdered German, Edgar Fritz Raupach, had been seized since January 26 along the Zaria Road, Kano, by gunmen suspected to be members of a terrorist group.

In March, Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb had said it was holding the German and that it would exchange him for Filiz Gelowicz, fundamentalist serving time in Germany