An Indian teacher who works for an ExxonMobil funded school in southern Nigeria, Mrs. Lakshmi Tombush, has been released two weeks after she was seized by gunmen, the police said on Friday.
“She was released yesterday (Thursday) and she is in a good condition,” Akwa Ibom State Commissioner of Police, Mr. Walter Rugbere, confirmed to our correspondent.
Tombush, head teacher at the oil firm’s Pegasus Primary School in Eket, was kidnapped a fortnight ago by gunmen who also shot dead her driver and a policeman escorting her.
It was unclear if a ransom was paid to secure her release.
No arrests have been made.
Scores of kidnappings have occurred in the Niger Delta in recent years, often by criminal gangs seeking ransom payments, and also by militants demanding a fairer distribution of oil revenue.
Last month, gunmen hijacked a bus carrying schoolchildren. They were freed in a police and military operation five days later.
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