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PORT HARCOURT, Nigeria (AP) - The 3-year-old son of a prominent town chief was grabbed by gunmen who smashed a window of his father's SUV on Thursday in the fourth child kidnapping in Nigeria's oil-rich south in less than two months, authorities said.
The kidnapping of the son of Eze Francis Amadi was a troubling indication that the big ransoms that gangs are demanding in exchange for seized foreigners may be inspiring copycat abductions of the children of well-to-do Nigerian families.
The kidnappers initially demanded the equivalent of nearly $400,000 in exchange for the return of Amadi's son, Samuel, said Azubuike Ihemeje, an aide to the chief.
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