Nigerian boy escapes from Muslim kidnappers

SOKOTO, Nigeria — A Nigerian Christian boy kidnapped in November by Muslims who intended to convert him to Islam escaped March 6 and returned to his family home. After four months in captivity, 13-year-old Victor Udo Usen fled from his Muslim captors and ran to a shop run by his mother in the Mabera area of Sokoto, capital of the northern state of Sokoto, Nigeria. Esther Udo Usen, Victor’s mother, told Compass Direct News Service she was in her shop when Victor came in, and the family made arrangements for him to leave the city.