Nigerian captors free British girl
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Nigerian kidnappers released a 3-year-old British girl on Sunday after holding her for four days, and no ransom was paid, according to Nigerian police sources close to the investigation.
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Hostage takers in Nigeria's restive oil region have released an American oil worker captive, police said Sunday.
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Nigerian kidnappers have released the wife of a prominent politician in the oil-rich but volatile Niger Delta two days after she was seized from her residence, police said Saturday.
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Nigerian kidnappers have tonight released Margaret Hill, a three-year-old British girl seized in Port Harcourt on Thursday.
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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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Four US nationals kidnapped this month in oil-rich southern Nigeria have been freed, official and diplomatic sources said Thursday.
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Nigerian troops have rounded up scores of suspected militants in their hunt for hostage-takers as one of two Germans abducted in the oil-rich Niger Delta was released.
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Nigerian kidnappers are still keeping three-year-old British girl Margaret Hill who was snatched in the oil city of Port Harcourt three days ago, her mother said Sunday.
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All seven foreign hostages seized by gunmen from an offshore Nigerian oil field were released on Monday after two days in captivity, a state government spokesman said.
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Armed men kidnapped a three-year-old British girl in Nigeria on Thursday, police and witnesses said, heightening a foreign hostage crisis in the country&#39;s main oil-producing zone.
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PORT HARCOURT, Nigeria, July 5 -- Gunmen smashed in the windows of a car carrying a British girl to school Thursday 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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Armed men kidnapped a three-year-old British girl on Thursday, heightening a foreign hostage crisis in Nigeria&#39;s troubled main oil producing zone.
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YENAGOA, Nigeria  - Nigerian militants freed 12 foreign hostages and one Nigerian in the oil-producing Niger Delta on Monday as a prelude to peace talks with the incoming government of President Umaru Yar'Adua.
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A Nigerian 3-year-old boy has been released by his kidnappers one day after he was snatched on his way to school in the Niger Delta, the boy's father said on Friday.
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Iraq&#39;s government says one of two women in US custody will be freed today, but insists the move is unrelated to the demands of kidnappers who have killed two Americans and are threatening to kill a Briton.
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A group of 24 Filipino seamen held hostage in Nigeria's oil-rich Delta region are freed after weeks in captivity.
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Three Europeans abducted three weeks ago from a bar in Nigeria's oil-rich south are freed in a military operation.