A three-year-old boy who was kidnapped in Nigeria’s oil-rich south was released today, a day after he was seized by gunmen, an aide to the boy’s father said.

Gunmen smashed a window and grabbed a three-year-old from his father’s Mercedes four-wheel drive vehicle today, bringing to four the number of children kidnapped for ransom in Nigeria’s oil-rich south.

Gunmen have seized the three-year-old son of a prominent Nigerian chief in restive southern Nigeria, police said today.