“Three Chinese nationals were abducted by some unknown gunmen within the early hours of Friday,” a senior police officer told AFP, requesting anonymity.
He said the gunmen had stormed a quarry outside Lokoja, the capital of Kogi state, and engaged the policemen on guard in a shootout.
“One policeman was killed while another sustained gunshot wounds,” he said.
He said the assailants escaped with their hostages on foot through the bush, adding that police were on their trail.
It was unknown whether the kidnappers were planning to demand a ransom.
Kogi state has seen a wave of abductions targeting foreigners this year.
A number of foreigners have also been kidnapped in the north of the country, but those attacks claimed by Boko Haram or the linked Islamist group Ansaru are considered a different phenomenon, and not necessarily motivated by a desire for ransom.
A number of people seized by Nigerian Islamists have been killed by their captors, while others have died during botched rescue operations.
It will be recalled that Rev. Phyllis Sortor, the kidnapped American woman Missionary, has been rescued following a combined effort by a team of police, military and SSS."
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