By Xinhua
Lagos : A three-year-old British girl was seized by armed kidnappers in Nigeria's southeastern Niger Delta area, local media quoted police as saying in Port Harcourt, the capital city of the area's Rivers State, on Thursday.
The three-year-old, Margaret Hill, a daughter of a British oil worker, was taken hostage on her way to school in the rebellious oil city by unidentified gunmen, according to reports.
The kidnapping follows that of five oil workers on Wednesday, the first since the main militant group in the area called off a month-long cease-fire.
Margaret Hill is the third child to be kidnapped by unknown gunmen in Nigeria in the last couple of weeks.
Since the beginning of this year, more than 100 foreigners have been abducted in southeastern Nigeria. Nigeria is Africa's largest oil producer with a daily crude output of 2.6 million barrels.
However, the repeated occurrence of kidnapping has scared thousands of foreign oil workers away since last year, forcing the oil production to reduce by nearly 25 percent.