Nigerian kidnappers 'threaten to kill' British girl

FE Team | Published: July 07, 2007 00:00:00 | Updated: February 01, 2018 00:00:00

Gunmen kidnapped a three-year-old British girl in the Nigerian oil city of Port Harcourt while she was on her way to school Thursday morning, police said.

LAGOS, July 6 (AFP): Gunmen who kidnapped a three-year- old British girl in southern Nigeria said they would kill her unless her father takes her place, the girl's mother told the BBC on Friday.
"They say I can bring my husband to swap with the baby," Oluchi, a Nigerian national, told the British broadcaster.
Margaret Hill was snatched at gunpoint on Thursday in Port Harcourt in the southern Rivers state as she was being dropped off for school.
Oluchi said the kidnappers had called her and demanded a meeting. They asked for the girl's father, British expatriate Michael Hill, to take her place.
However, neither she nor police were able to locate the town in Bayelsa State in the Niger Delta region where the meeting was supposed to take place.
The kidnappers then threatened to kill the toddler if her father did not come within three hours, Oluchi said, adding that she has had no contact with them since then.