GUNMEN have attacked a camp for a construction company in northern Nigeria, killing a guard and kidnapping seven foreign workers from Britain, Greece, Italy and Lebanon, authorities say.
It's the biggest kidnapping yet in a region under attack by Islamic extremists.
The attack on Saturday night happened in Jama'are, a town in a rural part of Bauchi state.
The gunmen first attacked a local prison, burning two police trucks, Bauchi state police spokesman Hassan Muhammed told The Associated Press.
The gunmen then targeted a worker's camp for a construction company called Setraco, which is building a road in the area, Muhammed said.
They shot dead a guard at the camp before kidnapping the foreign workers, he said.
Adamu Aliyu, the chairman of the local government area that encompasses Jama'are, identified those kidnapped as one British citizen, one Greek, one Italian and four Lebanese.
Nigeria's predominantly Muslim north has been under attack by the radical Islamic sect known as Boko Haram for the last 18 months.
The country's weak central government has been unable to stop the group's bloody guerrilla campaign of shootings and bombings.
The sect is blamed for killing at least 729 people in 2012 alone.
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