By REUTERS
LAGOS (Reuters) – Nigerian kidnappers said on Thursday their U.S. hostage was gravely ill and threatened to kill three other foreign oil workers held captive if he died.
A leader of the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta, whose month-long campaign against oil installations has driven up world oil prices, told Reuters by telephone that the health of U.S. oil worker Patrick Landry was failing.
“One of them is sick, badly sick and could give up tonight,'' said the man who identified himself as the ground commander of the movement. “If one of them dies, we kill them all.''