A 3-year-old Nigerian boy was kidnapped in the oil-producing Niger Delta in southern Nigeria on Thursday, police said, four days after a British girl of the same age was released by her kidnappers. Police spokeswoman Ireju Barasua said the boy was snatched while he was being taken to school by the family driver in the morning.
The kidnappers blocked the car with their own and seized the toddler, leaving the driver behind. Barasua said the boy, whom she named as Francis Samuel Amadi, was the son of a traditional ruler in the community of Iriebe, on the outskirts of Port Harcourt, the delta's main city. She gave the father's name as Eze Francis Amadi.