Armed men kidnapped three foreigners in oil-rich southern Nigeria on Sunday, local television reported, three days after a three year-old British girl was taken hostage in the same region.
Channels Television said the men, believed to be either Lebanese or Chinese were seized from a compound in Port Harcourt and taken to an unknown location.
The television quoted Rivers State police commissioner Felix Ogbaudu as confirming the kidnapping, but declining to give details.
There was no immediate confirmation of the report from government and security officials and no group has claimed responsibility for the abduction.
The kidnapping came three days after a three-year-old British toddler Margaret Hill was snatched in the city on the way to school on Thursday.
Her mother, Nigerian-born Oluchi Hill, told AFP that she has spoken to kidnappers on Sunday and had heard her daughter crying in the background. The kidnappers are demanding a ransom for her safe return.
More than 200 foreigners have been taken hostage since January 2006, but most of them have been released unharmed.