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Nigeria: British missionary’s kidnapper killed

January 12, 2018 Nigeria Delta State, Ian Squire, Kidnapping, Nigeria

The Nigerian Army says the leader of a gang responsible for the death of a British aid worker has been killed, the BBC reports. Peregbakumo Oyawerikumo was arrested by a special military task force. According to the army that task force was then ambushed on its way back to the . . . Read More

Kidnapped optician ‘shot dead after singing Amazing Grace’

November 28, 2017 Nigeria Delta State, Ian Squire, Kidnapping, Nigeria

The British optician kidnapped and killed last month in Nigeria died in a hail of bullets after singing the hymn ‘Amazing Grace’ to lift the spirits of his fellow hostages, two of them said. Ian Squire, 57, was killed instantly by shots fired by one of four gang members who . . . Read More

UK optician kidnapped and killed in Niger Delta, three other medical aid workers rescued

November 6, 2017 Nigeria Africa, Delta State, Ian Squire, Kidnapping, Niger Delta, Nigeria

A British optician, kidnapped with a missionary couple and another optician while working in the Niger Delta of Nigeria, has died. Ian Squire founded a Christian charity, Mission for Vision, in 2003 to “improve the lives of those living in the poorest regions in the developing world”. Once a year he . . . Read More

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Nigeria: British missionary’s kidnapper killed

Kidnapped optician ‘shot dead after singing Amazing Grace’

UK optician kidnapped and killed in Niger Delta, three other medical aid workers rescued

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