Gunmen free 3-year-old girl
From Times Wire Reports
Nigerian gunmen released a British preschooler who had been kidnapped in the country’s oil-rich south.
Margaret Hill, 3, was reunited with her parents. Her father, Mike Hill, told Sky News that no ransom was paid. Hill said his daughter was hungry and covered with mosquito bites.
Kidnappers seized Margaret while the car taking her to school idled in traffic Thursday in Port Harcourt. They stabbed her driver as he tried to protect her.
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