Kidnappers stabbed a captive German engineer to death on Thursday as soldiers unaware of the hostage’s presence raided a home in northern Nigeria, officials said, five months after the man’s abduction by members of a group linked to Al Qaeda. Soldiers initiated the raid on Thursday morning in Kano, the northern city where gunmen abducted the German, Edgar Fritz Raupach, on Jan. 26. A military spokesman, Lt. Iweah Ikedichi, said soldiers attacked a home where “senior commanders of the terrorist element” were believed to be meeting. The soldiers killed five people suspected of being terrorists in a firefight, Lieutenant Ikedichi said. Soldiers later discovered Mr. Raupach’s handcuffed body while searching the house, he said. A security official said the kidnappers stabbed Mr. Raupach before trying to escape.
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