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.

A British toddler kidnapped by Nigerian gunmen has been reunited with her parents.

The mother of a three-year-old British girl who was snatched in Nigeria said the kidnappers phoned and threatened to kill her daughter.

Kidnappers snatched a three-year-old British girl from her vehicle as it carried her to school today in Nigeria’s lawless southern oil region, officials said.