A foreigner has been kidnapped in Nigeria’s largest city of Lagos, the US consulate said on Sunday, in an alert to American citizens in the city.<\/p>\n
The Consulate however did not provide the identity of the foreigner kidnapped and his nationality.<\/p>\n
“The US Consulate General in Lagos received a report that an expatriate was kidnapped on Victoria Island on Saturday, March 23 at approximately 11 pm,” the consulate spokeswoman said in a message to US citizens, referring to an upscale area of Lagos.<\/p>\n
“Local Nigerian law enforcement confirmed this incident.”<\/p>\n
Police in Lagos, the economic capital of some 15 million people located in the country’s southwest, could not be reached for comment.<\/p>\n
Kidnapping of foreigners are rare in Lagos, but occasionally there have been reports of isolated cases of kidnapping, usually involving an insider or a collaborator close to the victim.<\/p>\n
Kidnappings for ransom occur regularly in the southern oil-producing Niger Delta region and Islamist extremists have carried out abductions in the country’s north.<\/p>\n
Victims of kidnappings in the Niger Delta and other areas of the south are usually released unharmed after payment of ransoms.<\/p>\n
Abductions in Nigeria’s north have however had deadly results.<\/p>\n
Islamist extremist group Ansaru recently claimed to have executed seven foreign hostages.<\/p>\n
In addition, a British national and an Italian were killed during a botched 2012 rescue operation, as was a German the same year.<\/p>\n
Nigerian Islamist extremist group Boko Haram is believed to currently be holding seven members of a French family abducted over the border in Cameroon.<\/p>\n
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