Nigeria: European Hostage Killer Dies in Custody

Mastermind behind the kidnap and killing of the Briton and an Italian in Nigeria died in police custody while his fellow accomplices  have been paraded by the Department of State Security.

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    Daily Trust, 15 March 2012

    A factional leader of Boko Haram who was captured after a gun fight in Zaria last week has died of bullet wounds he sustained in the raid, the State Security Service announced in… Read more »

Chris McManus and Franco Lamorina

Alleged hostage killers: Bashir Ibrahim (aka Adda’u), Ibrahim A. Habibu and Gambo Maiborodi.

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