Two policemen were killed in the ambush laid by the kidnappers.

The kidnap victims were reportedly setting up solar stations.

They were travelling from Kaduna  to the capital Abuja.

Nigerian authorities say every possible means is being deployed  to free the abductees.

Kidnapping foreigners for ransom is common in Nigeria’s southern states.

Last October four British missionaries were seized in the oil-rich Delta state.

One was killed while the other three were later released.

In recent years the crime has spread across the country as the economy has stalled. A crackdown on cattle rustling has been blamed for rising numbers of abductions in the north.

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Tribal clashes are blamed for the attack from South Sudan.

Ethiopia’s Communications Minister Getachew Reda says the attackers are members of South Sudan’s Murle tribe.

The victims are most from the Nuer population.

Ethiopia accommodates thousands of South Sudanese refugees.

They fled the violence that began three years ago when President Salva Kiir sacked his deputy Riek Machar, accusing him of plotting a coup.

Reda says the weekend  attackers are not thought to have any links to the South Sudanese government or rebels.

There a history of conflict in Ethiopia’s Gambella province, where the raid took place.

This is between the Nuer, Machar’s ethnic group,

and the Murle, who they accuse of cattle rustling and stealing children to raise as their own.

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