A correspondent of Deutsche Welle's Hausa Service reports that members of a local vigilante group chased the kidnappers after the abduction. Two members of the vigilante group were killed in the process. The other group members returned with their bodies.
A Nigerian online newspaper was the first to break the news of the abduction. A spokeswoman for the German Foreign Office told Deutsche Welle that the ministry was aware of the abduction. As in similar cases, the ministry said it could not release further details about the case.
The German teacher was working for the Technical Training Centre (TTC), a project of the Adamawa state government designed to reduce the soaring number of unemployed youth in the region. Several hundred students at various schools in the state are trained in different professions like carpentry or car maintenance. Several German teachers have been employed by the TTC. Local sources told DW that the majority of them would be flown out of the country after the abduction of their colleague.
The motive of the kidnappers is still unclear. A spokesman for the government of Adamawa state told DW that the police had sent a team of investigators to Gombi. The town is close to the border with Borno State, where the terrorist group Boko Harm abducted more than 200 girls from a school in April.
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