Briton kidnapped in Nigeria
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Unknown gunmen attack an oil barge and snatch a Briton and an East European in Nigeria's oil-region, officials say.
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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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The humanitarian aid group Care International today announced that the British-born head of its Iraqi operation had been kidnapped in Baghdad.
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Gunmen in speedboats kidnapped three  foreign workers from an offshore oilfield in Nigeria which was  preparing to restart after being closed for 20 months due to an  earlier attack, security sources said on Sunday.
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Gunmen kidnapped a Briton and two Americans from a house in central Baghdad today, the Iraqi interior ministry and witnesses said.
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Three-year-old kidnapped at gunpoint in Nigerian oil city of Port Harcourt, police say.
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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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One of four foreigners kidnapped last week during an attack on oil installation in southern Nigeria that all the hostages are &quot;fine&quot;.
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PORT HARCOURT, Nigeria  - Nigerian kidnappers have demanded 10 million naira ($78,600) for a 3-year-old boy they snatched on his way to school in the lawless Niger Delta, relatives of the toddler said on Friday.
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Gunmen kidnapped a  Filipino woman in Port Harcourt in Nigeria's oil-producing  Niger Delta, the first known abduction of a woman in the  anarchic region, and a Frenchman was seized in a separate  incident.
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The three-year-old daughter of an expatriate worker is kidnapped by gunmen in the Niger Delta, police say.
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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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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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Four more people have been abducted in the Niger Delta, authorities said on Monday, underscoring insecurity in Nigeria's oil-producing region hours after a 3-year-old British girl was freed by her kidnappers.
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Three Italians working for the Agip oil company have been kidnapped during an attack by armed assailants on an oil installation in southern Nigeria in which one person was wounded.
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A Briton and two other foreigners helping to organise Afghanistan&#39;s presidential election have been kidnapped by a gang of armed men in the capital, prompting a huge
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Gunmen have kidnapped a Briton and two Americans from a house in an affluent central Baghdad neighbourhood, the latest in a nearly six-month campaign of abductions of foreigners in Iraq.