They were killed by their captors
The Nigerian troops killed Boko Haram suspects
in an operation.Nigeria-based group Ansaru has said it killed seven foreign hostages it had seized on February 7 from a construction company in Nigeria,SITE Monitoring Service said.
The group issued a statement in Arabic and English on an affiliate of the Sinam al-Islam network accompanied by screen shots of a video purporting to show the dead hostages.
One screenshot showed a man with gun standing above several prone figures lying on the ground. In a statement, the group said it had to kill the hostages, taken from the compound of a Lebanese construction company in the northern state of Bauchi, because of attempts by Britain and Nigeria to rescue them.
"The Nigeria and British government operations led to the death of all the seven Christian foreigners,"it said.
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