3-year-old British girl seized by kidnappers in Nigeria
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PORT HARCOURT, Nigeria -- Gunmen smashed in the windows of a car carrying a British girl to school yesterday and kidnapped the 3-year-old in the first seizure of a foreign child in Nigeria's increasingly lawless oil region.
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A British toddler was released by gunmen in southern Nigeria on Sunday and reunited with her parents, who said she was fine but hungry and covered in mosquito bites.
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Two Norwegians and two Ukrainians working on an oil supply vessel in Nigeria have been kidnapped, the Norwegian government and the ship operators said.
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Three British nationals have been seized by gunmen in Baghdad, the Iraqi interior ministry says.
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Kidnappers snatched the 3-year-old daughter of a British worker as she was being taken to school Thursday in Nigeria's lawless southern oil region, police said.
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Gunmen kidnapped three people, including Asian expatriates, from the residential compound of chemical company Indorama in oil-rich southern Nigeria on Friday, a senior police officer said.
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Gunmen kidnapped a group of foreign oil workers on Friday, including three Americans and four Britons, in Nigeria's unruly southern petroleum-producing region, officials said.
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An 11-year-old Iraqi girl who lost a leg and 17 members of her family during last year&#39;s war urged kidnappers Saturday to release a British hostage they have been holding for nine days under threat of death.
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Armed men early Thursday kidnapped a three-year-old girl said to be the daughter of a British expatriate in volatile southern Nigeria, police said.
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The kidnappers of a 3-year-old British girl are threatening to kill her and then come after her parents if their demands aren't met, the girl's sobbing mother said Friday.
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Nigerian gunmen have released a British toddler who was kidnapped in the country's oil-rich south, a regional official said Sunday.
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Detectives in the US have arrested a 12-year-old girl and her 10-year-old sister for allegedly abducting their neighbour's one-year-old son and demanding a $200,000 (Â£100,000) ransom.
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Heavyily armed rebels seized a Briton, a Croat, a Russian and four Nigerians from an oil rig run after a three-hour gunbattle Sunday off southern Nigeria, industry and security sources said.
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Kidnappers in Nigeria free three-year-old British girl Margaret Hill, after a three-day hostage ordeal.
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An 11-year-old Iraqi girl who lost a leg and 17 members of her family during last year's war urged kidnappers Saturday to release a British hostage they have been holding for nine days under threat of death.
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Kidnappers seized a woman who heads a British charity in Baghdad Tuesday, just over two weeks after captors beheaded British hostage Kenneth Bigley.
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Kidnappers seized a woman from the Philippines on Wednesday in Nigeria's oil-producing region, police said, marking the first female captive known taken in an upsurge of violence roiling Africa's oil giant.