PORT HARCOURT, Nigeria, Feb 6 (Reuters) - A nine-year-old Nigerian boy was freed on Friday, a week after gunmen kidnapped him and killed his sister as they walked to school in the southern oil city of Port Harcourt, security and industry sources said.
The boy was released unharmed early Friday, a security source said. Gunmen shot his 11-year-old sister when she tried to prevent the kidnappers from taking him last week.
No ransom was believed to have been paid for his release.
"I can tell you that the young boy was released early this morning and is now with his parents," said Grace Olowo, branch chairwoman of oil workers' union PENGASSAN in Rivers State.
The children's father works for Royal Dutch Shell (RDSa.L) in the Niger Delta, the heart of Nigeria's oil and gas industry.
Violent crime has surged in the Niger Delta since militants, who claim to be fighting for a fairer share of the region's natural resources, launched a campaign of sabotage against the oil industry three years ago. (Reporting by Austin Ekeinde in Port Harcourt and Randy Fabi in Abuja; Editing by Janet Lawrence)
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