Gunmen in southern Nigeria have released a British man taken hostage in the oil city of Port Harcourt more than two weeks ago.
“He was pretty sick. His health was deteriorating,” a diplomat said Wednesday on condition of anonymity.
The source said he believed the kidnappers had released the man for fear he might die in their hands.
The Briton, who has not been identified, was seized along with an American as the two travelled to work by car in Nigeria’s oil capital Port Harcourt on January 23.
The diplomat had no news of the American hostage, identified by industry sources as the time of the kidnap as Bill or Billy Graham.
He was also unable to say if the Briton had already been evacuated from southern Nigeria.